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A student's guide to Relativity
This compact guide presents the key features of general relativity, to support and supplement the presentation in mainstream, more comprehensive undergraduate textbooks, or as a re-cap of essentials for graduate students pursuing more advanced…
Einsteins Geesteskind
De hernieuwde belangstelling voor de bijdragen van Albert Einstein (1879-1955) aan de mensheid heeft natuurkundige en wetenschapsschrijver Barry parker aangezet tot het samenstellen van een boek waarin hij de belangrijkste theoriën van Einstein zo…
The New Physics
The New Physics is the first book to give a complete and comprehensive account of everything that is new and most exciting in modern physics. What does the concept of chaos mean? What occurred in the first billionth of a second after the Universe…
Superforce
Many scientists believe we are on the verge of a "Theory of Everything" - a complete unification of all the fundamental forces and particles of nature. In this book, the physicist and author Paul Davies gives an account of the quest for a superforce…
Superstrings
Geared to the layperson, a clear, concise, non-mathematical explanation of the "Theory of Everything" and its profound implications is followed by transcripts of interviews with most of the physicists involved in its development.
Davies is always on…
The ghost in the atom
Anybody who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. Niels Bohr's dictum bears witness to the bewildering impact of quantum theory, flying in the face of classical physics and dramatically transforming scientists' outlook on our…
De volmaakte theorie
Dit boek is de biografie van de algemene relativiteit, Einsteins theorie over de samenhang van tijd en ruimte. De onderzoekers ervan zijn vervolgd in Hitler-Duitsland, opgejaagd in Stalins Rusland en geminacht in het Amerika van de jaren vijftig.…
The arrow of time
In our century, the subject of time has become an area of serious inquiry for science. Theories that contain time as a simple quantity form the basis of our understanding of many scientific disciplines, yet the debate rages on: why does there seem to…
Seeking ultimates
Seeking Ultimates: An Intuitive Guide to Physics, Second Edition takes us on a journey that explores the limits of our scientific knowledge, emphasizing the gaps that are left. The book starts with everyday concepts such as temperature, and proceeds…
Not even wrong
Not Even Wrong is a fascinating exploration of our attempts to come to grips with perhaps the most intellectually demanding puzzle of all: how does the universe work at its most fundamental level?
The book begins with an historical survey of the…