Robert B Laughlin: 4 books
Powering the Future
How We Will (Eventually) Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
In Powering the Future, Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin transports us two centuries into the future, when we’ve ceased to use carbon from the ground—either because humans have banned carbon burning or because fuel has simply run out. Boldly, Laughlin predicts no earth-shattering transformations...
A Different Universe
Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
A Nobel-winning physicist argues that fundamental physical laws are found not in the world of atoms, but in the macroscopic world around us
In this age of superstring theories and Big Bang cosmology, we're used to thinking of the unknown as impossibly distant from our everyday lives. But in...
The Crime of Reason
And the Closing of the Scientific Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
We all agree that the free flow of ideas is essential to creativity. And we like to believe that in our modern, technological world, information is more freely available and flows faster than ever before. But according to Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin, acquiring information is becoming a danger or...
Der Letzte macht das Licht aus
Die Zukunft der Energie
Language: German
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Wenn es dunkel wird, machen wir das Licht an. Wenn es kalt wird, heizen wir. Wenn wir Energie brauchen für weltweite Industrie und Technik, bedienen wir uns. Jederzeit. Doch schon bald sind die Brennstoffe der Erde wie Kohle, Gas, Öl und Uran unwiderruflich aufgebraucht. Und dann? Der Physiknobelpreisträger Robert B. Laughlin über die Zukunft unserer Energieversorgung.