A group of leading physicists--Stephen Hawking, Kip S. Thorne, Igor Novikov, Timothy Ferris, and Alan Lightman--paints a vivid portrait of the possible future of black holes, gravity holes, and time travel in six readable essays that explore the…
This introductory physical science text discusses the essentials of physics, chemistry, geology, astronomy and meteorology using the most up-to-date information on the most recent discoveries in space. The latest photographs from Neptune, information…
De afstanden in het heelal strekken zich uit van enkele honderdduizenden kilometers naar de maan, tot vele miljarden lichtjaren naar de grens van ons waarnemingsvermogen. En evenals afstanden zijn ook afmetingen in het heelal vaak astronomisch…
Het boek behandelt de verschillende orden van oneindigheid. In ongeveer chronologische volgorde wordt de ontwikkeling van de wiskunde gevolgd om uiteindelijk fascinerende zaken als Julia-fractals en de Mandelbrot-set te verklaren. 'Oneindigheid' gaat…
A Guide for the perplexed : « Assume the cow is a sphere." So begins this lively, irreverent, and informative look at everything from the physics of boiling water to cutting-edge research at the observable limits of the universe. Rich with anecdotes…
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In this extraordinarily accessible and enormously witty book, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman guides us on a fascinating tour of the history of particle physics. The book takes us from the Greeks' earliest…
In this illuminating book, the renowned theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that fundamental physics -- the search for the laws of nature -- losing its way. Ambitious ideas about extra dimensions, exotic particles, multiple universes, and strings…
The Holy Grail of modern physics is the search for a ‘quantum gravity’ view of the universe that unites Einstein’s general relativity with quantum theory. Until recently, these two foundational pillars of modern science have seemed incompatible:…