General Physics category: 2746 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
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Beyond the Finite
The Sublime in Art and Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
Throughout its long history, and not just as the key aesthetic category for the Romantic Movement, the sublime has created the necessary link between aesthetic and moral judgment, offering the prospect of transcending the limits of measurement, even imagination. The best of science makes genuine claims...
Voyage Through Time
Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
From a beginning in an Egyptian Delta town and the port of Alexandria to the scenic vistas of sunny southern California, Ahmed Zewail takes us on a voyage through time his own life and the split-second world of the femtosecond. In this engaging exposé of his life and work until his receipt of the...
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...
Everything's Relative
And Other Fables from Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
The surprising truth behind many of the most cherished "facts" in science history
Morse invented the telegraph, Bell the telephone, Edison the light bulb, and Marconi the radio . . . right? Well . . . the truth is slightly more complicated. The history of science and technology is riddled...
Loving Faster than Light
Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In November 1919, newspapers around the world alerted readers to a sensational new theory of the universe: Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. Coming at a time of social, political, and economic upheaval, Einstein’s theory quickly became a rich cultural resource with many uses beyond physical...
The Book of Nothing
Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
What conceptual blind spot kept the ancient Greeks (unlike the Indians and Maya) from developing a concept of zero? Why did St. Augustine equate nothingness with the Devil? What tortuous means did 17th-century scientists employ in their attempts to create a vacuum? And why do contemporary quantum...
Quantum Philosophy
Understanding and Interpreting Contemporary Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2002
In this magisterial work, Roland Omnès takes us from the academies of ancient Greece to the laboratories of modern science as he seeks to do no less than rebuild the foundations of the philosophy of knowledge. One of the world's leading quantum physicists, Omnès reviews the history and recent development...
by Rob Iliffe
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2007
This Very Short Introduction uses Newton's own unpublished writings to provide fascinating insight into the man who kept the Royal Society under his thumb, was Head of the Mint, and whose contributions to our understanding of the heavens and the earth are considered by many to be unparalleled. The...
by Richard Lighthouse
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
This technical note builds upon the previously released "Mathematical Solution Unifying the Four Fundamental Forces," by providing a model and diagrams describing how the Electrical Universe (EU) operates. Conclusions include: (1) Mass is not just a property of matter, it is a dimension. (2) Fundamental...
by Jim Ottaviani
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Richard Feynman: physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safe-cracker.
In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest...
Dance of the Photons
From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Einstein's steadfast refusal to accept certain aspects of quantum theory was rooted in his insistence that physics has to be about reality. Accordingly, he once derided as "spooky action at a distance" the notion that two elementary particles far removed from each other could nonetheless...
What a Wonderful World
One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
With wit, colour and clarity, What A Wonderful World quickly and painlessly brings us up to speed on how the world of the 21st century works. From economics to physics and biology to philosophy, Marcus Chown explains the complex forces that shape our universe.
Why do we breathe? What is money?...
SCIENCE
THE FAILED HYPOTHESIS
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Subaltern notable – built on the work of the great astronomers Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus (who took the details of Ptolemy, and found a way to look at the same construction from a slightly different perspective and discover that the Earth is not the center of the universe) and Johannes Kepler...