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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... classical physics. Before embarking on an account of some of the amazing advances in the twentieth century and looking into the future, it seemed appropriate to survey the prospect from the year 1900. There are people alive today who ...
... physics in the twentieth century. The quantum mechanics that is needed to ... classical mechanics. The science of complexity, of the spontaneous ... classical worldview inherited from Newton and.
... classical physics, were unified by the special theory into a spacetime stripped of any absolute landmarks or preferred frame of reference. The general theory then endowed spacetime with a dynamic role as active partner in the dance of ...
... classical physics, but they are still the enduring framework and foundation for the physics of the twenty-first century, and they still provide the context, and even much of the language, within which the subject is advanced. I do not ...
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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 |