Marcia Bartusiak: 6 books

Book cover of Dispatches from Planet 3

Dispatches from Planet 3

Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond

by Marcia Bartusiak
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018

An award-winning science writer presents a captivating collection of cosmological essays for the armchair astronomer   The galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging compilation of cosmological “tales” by multiple award†‘winning science writer Marcia...
Book cover of The Day We Found the Universe
by Marcia Bartusiak
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009

The riveting and mesmerizing story behind a watershed period in human history, the discovery of the startling size and true nature of our universe. On New Years Day in 1925, a young Edwin Hubble released his finding that our Universe was far bigger, eventually measured as a thousand trillion...
Book cover of Black Hole

Black Hole

How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved

by Marcia Bartusiak
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015

"For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The weirdly alien notion of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes—not even light—seemed to confound all logic. This engrossing book tells the story of the...
Book cover of Einstein’s Unfinished Symphony

Einstein’s Unfinished Symphony

The Story of a Gamble, Two Black Holes, and a New Age of Astronomy

by Marcia Bartusiak
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017

An updated classic that recounts the long hunt for Einstein’s predicted gravitational waves—and celebrates their recent discovery In February 2016, astronomers announced that they had verified the last remaining prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity—vibrations in space-time, called...
Book cover of Agujero negro
by Marcia Bartusiak
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2016

La historia y evolución de las ideas y conceptos que dieron lugar al fenómeno físico que conocemos como agujeros negros La noción, por demás extraña, de que existen abismos en el espacio-tiempo de los que no escapa ni la luz, parece ir contra toda lógica. Y es que es difícil concebirlos....
Book cover of 黑洞簡史
by 芭杜席雅克(Marcia Bartusiak)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: July 5, 2018

◆全宇宙第一本黑洞的傳記! ◆2017年諾貝爾物理學獎得主的研究焦點! ◆美國物理科學寫作大獎二度得主、美國物理學會安德魯哲鎂大獎(此獎表彰年度物理科學最有貢獻者)得主最新力作 黑洞是個古怪詭異的概念,是時空中的深淵——連光線都無法逃逸!科學家深信大自然不會這麼瘋狂亂來,簡直違反了所有的邏輯! 「黑洞應該隸屬奇幻神話的範疇,是吸血鬼或滴水怪的同類。」 古老格言有云:任何真理都必須經過三個階段——受奚落;引起強烈反對;最後變成不證自明。黑洞,結結實實走過這三個歷程。 「等我們認清宇宙有多奇怪時,才能明白宇宙有多簡單。」 ——惠勒(當代美國相對論泰斗) 高涌泉(國立台灣大學物理系教授)熱情推薦 重量級科學作家芭杜席雅克結合物理專業和俐落的新聞寫作,創作出宛如章回小說的科普佳構。這是關於黑洞如何引起偉大思想家如愛因斯坦、惠勒、霍金等人如何激戰、沮喪、又如何振奮的動人故事,他們的貢獻又是如何完全改變我們對宇宙的看法。 作者也告訴我們黑洞如何替愛因斯坦平反,將他最偉大的成就「廣義相對論」從歷史的陰暗角落帶回物理的亮麗舞台。 直到天文學家發現中子星和黑洞等令人驚異的現象,一度沉寂的宇宙才轉化為愛因斯坦口中的完整體系。這個充滿巨大能量的宇宙秩序,也只有透過相對論才能讓人了解。 本書出版正值相對論問世百周年紀念;2017年諾貝爾物理獎得主索恩等人,更找到了這片宇宙最重要的一塊拼圖——黑洞互撞產生的重力波。 從小道消息、鄉野傳奇到驗明正身、黃袍加身的明日之星, 只應出現在神話或科幻小說的「好主意」,果然真實存在。 尖端科學家競逐聖杯的故事還沒結束,黑洞的研究方興未艾! 【國內外專業推薦】(按姓氏筆畫序) 《黑洞簡史》展示了科普應有的模樣:想知道黑洞嗎?那就別多管傳統的課程,直接打開本書吧! ——余海峯(瑞典皇家理工學院粒子及天體粒子物理組博士) 本書作者娓娓道來黑洞的歷史,不過度著墨學理,卻帶著一種類似章回小說的文學趣味,引人入勝。 ——陳丕燊(國立台灣大學梁次震宇宙學講座教授兼梁次震宇宙學與粒子天文物理學研究中心主任) 黑洞的觀測仍在持續進行中……讀者埋首閱讀之餘,不妨仰望銀河深處,對黑洞這個獨角獸,你仍可充滿幻想。 ——溫文鈺(中原大學物理系教授) 芭杜席雅克的新書是經過透徹的研究,同時洞察科學事業的本質。文筆優美,黑洞迷會深深愛上這本書。 ——萊特曼(Alan...
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