Explaining the Universe: The New Age of PhysicsPrinceton University Press, 05.06.2018 - 264 Seiten In this fascinating book, John Charap offers a panoramic view of the physicist's world as the twenty-first century opens--a view that is entirely different from the one that greeted the twentieth century. We have learned that the universe is billions of galaxies larger than we imagined--and billions of years older. We know more about how it came to be and what it is. Because of physics, we live in a world of greater danger and more convenience, smaller particles and bigger ideas. |
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... electrical properties of substances at low temperatures, he discovered that the electrical resistance of lead suddenly vanished completely at a temperature just 7.2 degrees above absolute zero. He had discovered superconductivity. It ...
... electrical resistance when cooled only to the modest extent attainable by using liquid nitrogen.4 There is still no agreed-upon theory that explains this behavior (the theory that can explain superconductivity in metals such as lead ...
... electricity and magnetism, adding, “In our time the relations of civilised life have been already perhaps more profoundly altered than ever before, owing to the establishment of practically instantaneous electric communication between ...
... electrical discharges in gases, and especially to research on cathode rays. (At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that year, Vice-President Ernest George Merritt had also emphasized the ...
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Inhalt
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3 HEAVENS ABOVE | 24 |
4 CHANCE AND CERTAINTY | 43 |
5 ORDER OUT OF CHAOS | 64 |
6 YOUR PLACE OR MINE | 77 |
7 MANY HISTORIES MANY FUTURES | 86 |
8 MICROCOSM | 100 |
11 IN THE BEGINNING | 151 |
12 DOWN TO EARTH | 172 |
13 EPILOGUE | 188 |
Notes | 195 |
Glossary | 209 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 215 |
Index of Names | 219 |
General Index | 223 |