General Physics category: 2746 books
by John Gribbin, Michael White
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
An updated edition of the definitive biography on Stephen Hawking that marries biography and science to tell the story of one of the most remarkable men in history
Stephen Hawking is no ordinary scientist. He has broadened our basic understanding of the universe and his theoretical work on...
Extreme Cosmos
A Guided Tour of the Fastest, Brightest, Hottest, Heaviest,Oldest, and Most Amaz ing Aspects of Our Universe
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
**A top astronomer explores the universe through the lens of its most jaw-dropping extremes. **
The universe is all about extremes, and in this engaging and thought-provoking book, astronomer Bryan Gaensler gives a whirlwind tour of the galaxies, with an emphasis on its fastest, hottest, heaviest,...
The Quantum Labyrinth
How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The story of the unlikely friendship between the two physicists who fundamentally recast the notion of time and history
In 1939, Richard Feynman, a brilliant graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. A lifelong friendship and enormously...
The Great Beyond
Higher Dimensions, Parallel Universes and the Extraordinary Search for a Theory of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
The concept of multiple unperceived dimensions in the universe is one of the hottest topics in contemporary physics. It is essential to current attempts to explain gravity and the underlying structure of the universe. The Great Beyond begins with Einstein’s famous quarrel with Heisenberg and Bohr,...
Galileo's Finger : The Ten Great Ideas of Science
The Ten Great Ideas of Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2003
Any literate person should be familiar with the central ideas of modern science. In his sparkling new book, Peter Atkins introduces his choice of the ten great ideas of science. With wit, charm, patience, and astonishing insights, he leads the reader through the emergence of the concepts, and then...
Six Not-So-Easy Pieces
Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
Six lectures, all regarding the most revolutionary discovery in twentieth-century physics: Einstein's Theory of Relativity. No one--not even Einstein himself--explained these difficult, anti-intuitive concepts more clearly, or with more verve and gusto, than Feynman.
Nature's Blueprint
Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The first accessible book on a theory of physics that explains the relationship between the particles and forces that make up our universe.
For decades, physicists have been fascinated with the possibility that two seemingly independent aspects of our world—matter and force—may in fact...
Subtle is the Lord
The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Subtle is the Lord is widely recognized as the definitive scientific biography of Albert Einstein. The late Abraham Pais was a distinguished physicist turned historian who knew Einstein both professionally and personally in the last years of his life. His biography combines a profound understanding...
The Akashic Experience
Science and the Cosmic Memory Field
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2009
Firsthand testimonies by 20 leaders in culture and science of their interactions with the Akashic field
• Provides important evidence for the authenticity of nonmaterial contact that human beings have with each other and with the cosmos
• Demonstrates that the increasing frequency...
by Freeman Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A lifetime of candid reflections from physicist Freeman Dyson, “an acute observer of personality and human foibles” (New York Times Book Review).
Written between 1940 and the late 1970s, the postwar recollections of renowned physicist Freeman Dyson have been celebrated as an historic portrait...
Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens
Frank Oppenheimer and His Astonishing Exploratorium
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
How do we reclaim our innate enchantment with the world? And how can we turn our natural curiosity into a deep, abiding love for knowledge? Frank Oppenheimer, the younger brother of the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, was captivated by these questions, and used his own intellectual inquisitiveness...
by Philipp Frank
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Much has been written about Albert Einstein, technical and biographical, but very little remains as valuable as this unique hybrid of a book written by Einstein’s colleague and contemporary. Both rich in personal insights and grounded in a deep knowledge of twentieth-century science, Phillip Frank's...
The Great Unknown
Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
**“An engaging voyage into some of the great mysteries and wonders of our world." --Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dream and The Accidental Universe
“No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting.” —Bill Bryson
Brain Pickings and Kirkus Best Science...
by Mitzi DeWhitt
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2006
As the third in a musicological trilogy that seeks objective answers to physical and metaphysical questions by way of musical ratios and proportions, this book may start with the acoustical properties of vibrating strings, but it certainly does not stop there. Rather, it goes on to attack some of...