Quantum Theory category: 1097 books
Book Review: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
A summary of humanity’s study of the universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
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As its name suggests, A Brief History of Time sets out the history of our understanding of time and the universe around us. In this bestselling...
The Hidden Reality
Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos tackles perhaps the most mind-bending question in modern physics and cosmology: Is our universe the only universe?
There was a time when "universe" meant all there is. Everything. Yet, a number of theories...
by CHARLES SMITH, WILLIS TOWER, THOMAS COPE
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
ON THE STUDY OF PHYSICS
When a pupil begins the study of Physics he has in his possession many bits of knowledge which are fundamental in the science. He has learned to throw a ball and can tell how a thrown ball moves. He has drawn out nails with a claw hammer. He has seen wood float and iron...
Farewell to Reality
How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
From acclaimed science author Jim Baggot, a lively, provocative, and “intellectually gratifying” critique of modern theoretical physics (The Economist).
Where does one draw the line between solid science and fairy-tale physics? Jim Baggott argues that there is no observational or experimental...
by Carlo Rovelli
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Ci sono frontiere della conoscenza dove brucia il nostro desiderio di sapere: sono nelle profondità più minute del tessuto dello spazio, nelle origini del cosmo, nella natura del tempo, nella destinazione dei buchi neri. Qui, a contatto con l’oceano di quanto non sappiamo, bellezza e mistero ci...
by Jérôme Gleyzes
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This thesis presents several significant new results that shed light on two major puzzles of modern cosmology: the nature of inflation, the very early phase of the universe that is thought to have given rise to the large-scale structures that we observe today; and that of the current accelerated expansion....
by Leon M. Lederman, Christopher T. Hill
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 19, 2013
La fisica quantistica è la più solida base delle nostre conoscenze. Praticamente tutto ciò che sappiamo sul mondo passa per questa disciplina, e sono tantissime le realizzazioni pratiche che questa scienza ha reso possibili: dal laser ai transistor, dalla risonanza magnetica al telefono cellulare...
The Large Hadron Collider
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
It may at first seem that the world of subatomic physics is far removed from our every day lives. Isn’t it all just a waste of time and taxpayers' money? Hopefully, all who read this book will come to a different conclusion. Collider physics is all about our origins, and this aspect alone makes...
The Universe Next Door
A Journey through 55 Alternative Realities, Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Could there be a doorway to the multiverse in our backyard?
It's lucky you're here. But for a series of incredible coincidences and roads not taken, your life could be very different. The same goes for reality. We live in just one of many possible worlds. In others, dinosaurs still rule the...
Faust in Copenhagen
A Struggle for the Soul of Physics
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2007
A physicist himself, Gino Segrè writes about what scientists do?and why they do it?with intimacy, clarity, and passion. In Faust in Copenhagen, he evokes the fleeting, magical moment when physics?and the world?was about to lose its innocence forever. Known by physicists as the miracle year, 1932...
Nuclear Forces
The Making of the Physicist Hans Bethe
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
What drove Nobel-winning physicist Hans Bethe, head of Theoretical Physics at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, to later renounce the weaponry he had worked so tirelessly to create? That is one of the questions answered by Nuclear Forces, a riveting biography of Bethe’s early life and development as both a scientist and a man of principle.
The Universe in the Rearview Mirror
How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
“A great read… Goldberg is an excellent guide.”—Mario Livio, bestselling author of The Golden Ratio
Physicist Dave Goldberg speeds across space, time and everything in between showing that our elegant universe—from the Higgs boson to antimatter to the most massive group of galaxies—is...
by Alice A. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
The seven lectures presented here were delivered in New York for the purpose of presenting the testimony of science as to the relation of matter and of consciousness; to enable the hearers to observe the identical manifestation of these relations and of certain basic laws in successively higher states...
Higgs:The invention and discovery of the 'God Particle'
The invention and discovery of the 'God Particle'
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
The hunt for the Higgs particle has involved the biggest, most expensive experiment ever. So exactly what is this particle? Why does it matter so much? What does it tell us about the Universe? Has the discovery announced on 4 July 2012 finished the search? And was finding it really worth all the effort?The...