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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... fundamental changes will topple our best-held ideas tomorrow. But even if changes as profound as those that marked the early years of the twentieth century— quantum mechanics and relativity—were to make us revise what we. Preface.
... Fundamental research has spawned new products and new industries, as well as deeper understanding of the natural world. The pace of discovery and its exploitation is exhilarating and relentless. For all the dangers which sometimes cloud ...
... fundamental laws governing the behavior of matter in situations less extreme than those of the high-energy laboratory or the outer limits of space and time, it does not follow that we fully understand the implications of those laws. And ...
... fundamental level there are some deep principles and laws that govern all the myriad phenomena of the physical world. But it is unreasonable and unrealistic to start from these fundamentals in order to give a useful explanation for ...
... fundamental to all nature.” One should neither ignore nor belittle the difficulty in moving upward through the strata of levels of understanding. At any step it may be not only convenient but necessary to introduce new laws, new ...
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 |