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Het eiland dat Higgs heet
Op 4 juli 2012 beleefde de natuurkunde een van de grootste triomfen van de moderne tijd. In experimenten op versnellerlab CERN in Genève was een nieuw deeltje gevonden waarover theoretici al tientallen jaren speculeerden. Het higgsdeeltje. De vondst…
Fundamenteel
Nobelprijswinnaar Frank Wilczek presenteert met aanstekelijk plezier de tien grondbeginselen van de moderne natuurkunde die ons doen begrijpen hoe de wereld werkt en hoe wij daar als mensen in passen.Hij scheidt feit van fictie, geeft een glimp van…
The Quantum Cookbook
Quantum mechanics is an extraordinarily successful scientific theory. But it is also completely mad. Although the theory quite obviously works, it leaves us chasing ghosts and phantoms; particles that are waves and waves that are particles; cats that…
Was Einstein right?
How has the most celebrated scientific theory of our century held up under today's exacting scrutiny of planetary probes, radio astronomy, atomic clocks, and electronic super-computers? After eighty years, was Einstein right? Einstein's theory has…
Thirty years that shook physics
"Dr. Gamow, physicist and gifted writer, has sketched an intriguing portrait of the scientists and clashing ideas that made the quantum revolution." — Christian Science Monitor
In 1900, German physicist Max Planck postulated that light, or radiant…
Alice in quantumland
In this cleverly conceived book, physicist Robert Gilmore makes accessible some complex concepts in quantum mechanics by sending Alice to Quantumland - a whole new Wonderland, smaller than an atom, where each attraction demonstrates a different…
The charm of the strange quark
A primer on the evolution of particle physics and the search for the fundamental building blocks of matter, this book presents the full current body of understanding of particle physics in a way that is accessible to readers with some basic…
The constants of nature
The constants of Nature are the fundamental laws of physics that apply throughout the universe: gravity, velocity of light, electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. They encode the deepest secrets of the universe and express at once our greatest…
Faster than the speed of light
The idea that the speed of light is a constant - at 186,000 miles per second - is one of the few scientific facts that almost everyone knows. That constant - c- also appears in the most famous of all scientific equations: e=mc2- Yet over the last few…
Supersymmetry
Predicting the next stage in physics, supersymmetry, the author shows readers why this search for the theory underlying the basic structure of the universe will dominate the science in the future.
The physical theory called "supersymmetry" is as yet…