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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... possible that we are mistaken, that some 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 ...
... Possible Worlds and Other Papers (London: Chatto & Windus, 1927): “I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than ...
... possible structure of spacetime and matter. To some these ideas may seem to have no more foundation than the imaginings of ancient philosophy or New Age mysticism. But that is not the way I see it! I hope at least to be able to persuade ...
... possible have also enriched our lives, thus linking the extremes of nature to the everyday. At the dawn of the twentieth century, the then-recent discovery of x rays was already making possible a whole new approach to medicine, an ...
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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 |