Helge S Kragh: 2 books
Entropic Creation
Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and Cosmology
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Entropic Creation is the first English-language book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, from around 1860 to 1920. According to the second law of thermodynamics, as formulated by the German physicist Rudolf Clausius, the entropy of any closed system...
The Weight of the Vacuum
A Scientific History of Dark Energy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of cosmic acceleration due to dark energy, a discovery that is all the more perplexing as nobody knows what dark energy actually is. We put the modern concept of cosmological vacuum energy into historical context and show how it grew out...