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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... a great Russian physicist Yakov Zeldovich: unless you can explain it to a high school student, you donPt understand it yourself. John M. Charap London, August 2001 ALTHOUGH I HAVE SCRUPULOUSLY TRIED TO AVOID MATHEMATICS in this.
... MATHEMATICS in this book, I would have found it hard to convey without numbers the scale of phenomena encompassed by ... mathematical notation indicating powers of ten. According to this system of notation, 1,000,000 106, and a million ...
... mathematical self-consistency, and the yet more rigorous demands of conformity with experimental observation. These probing speculations give us not only the dazzle and wonder of an imagined world but the added amazement of knowing that ...
... mathematics and physics section by emphasizing the advances of the previous twenty years in the understanding of electricity and magnetism, adding, “In our time the relations of civilised life have been already perhaps more profoundly ...
... Mathematics of the University of Cambridge. Among those who held the chair before him were Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Babbage; and of those who came after him, Paul Dirac and Stephen Hawking. ( Emilio Segr`e Visual Archives, The ...
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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 |