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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... molecules, like the DNA that encodes our genetic inheritance—is made from atoms. But those atoms themselves were discovered to have a structure that cannot be properly described or understood without transforming the fundamentals of ...
... molecular structure, still less of the quantum mechanics and electromagnetic theory that underpin them. And though we ... molecules derived from more basic chemistry; these in turn have a theoretical framework built upon the behavior of ...
... molecular dynamics. But it makes no sense whatever to speak of the temperature of a single molecule, nor even of a half a dozen molecules. Temperature is an emergent phenomenon, which only becomes significant when a great many molecules ...
... molecules. Was one to accept the particulate nature of matter as a reality, or merely a “conventional artifice,” useful in explaining experimental facts? Even as the twentieth century dawned some influential voices were heard in ...
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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 |