95 10 2379 https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/8b892c1645a3e11efca28877a2f07de3.png 59b3b0d1234c17c840599433e0ea4df6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Natuurkunde Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-2240-6135-3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NAT1004 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John D. Barrow Title A name given to the resource The constants of nature Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Jonathan Cape Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2002 Description An account of the resource 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 knowledge and our greatest ignorance about the cosmos. Their existence has taught us the profound truth that nature abounds with unseen regularities. What is the ultimate status of these constants of nature? Do we know why they are as they are? Are they truly constant? Are they the same everywhere? Are they all linked? These are some of the issues this book will tackle. It will look back to the discoveries of the first constants of nature and the impact they had on scientists like Einstein. Astronomical observations are suggesting that some of the constants of nature were different when the universe was younger, so are our laws of nature slowly changing? Is anything about our universe immune from the ravages of time? This book examines whether there are any constants of nature at all. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/de01d598e38fe58b48e573b178516604.png 5b70c542e1c6fff7403975360d85dfeb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Natuurkunde Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-4340-0948-0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NAT1001 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Joao Magueijo Title A name given to the resource Faster than the speed of light Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available William Heinemann Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2003 Description An account of the resource 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 years, a small group of highly reputable young physicists have suggested that the central dogma of modern physics may not be an absolute truth - light may have moved faster in the earlier life of the universe, it may still be moving at different speeds elsewhere today. In telling the story of this heresy, and its gradual journey towards acceptance, Joao Magueijo writes as one of the three central figures in the story, introducing the reader to modern cosmology, to the implications of VSL (variable speed of light) and to the world of physicists. The initial rejection of Magueijo's ideas is beginning to give way to a reluctant acceptance that the young men may have a point - only the next few years will tell the final fate of this 'dangerous' idea. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/7be4902d745f562dc7a05bdb75cce714.png af05354d62ba8d524e50b80f22ae1485 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Natuurkunde Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-7382-0061-3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NAT0998 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gordon Kane Title A name given to the resource Supersymmetry Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Basic Books Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2000 Description An account of the resource 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 unproven, but its proof will unite the four fundamental forces of nature - electromagnetism, gravity, the strong and the weak nuclear forces - and will lead to the so called Grand Unified Theory (GUT) that physicist have long quested after. The theory underlying supersymmetry posits that every particle has a "super-partner" (e.g. a quark has a "squark, ... and so on) whose exisence can be adduced by observable behaviour. Some of these super-partners, such as the conjectured Higgs boson are "really a new kind of matter", suggests physicist Gordon Kane in Supersymmetry Accessible and thought provoking, Kane's book offers a glimpse of that knowledge to come. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/257b7a149037e9a2ebaa4971c29bd1c6.png be0caaed830637c8df47b28b294ee4a9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Natuurkunde Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-4650-1895-6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NAT0995 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frank Wilczek Title A name given to the resource The lightness of being Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Basic Books Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2010 Description An account of the resource Our understanding of nature's deepest reality has changed radically, but almost without our noticing, over the past twenty-five years. Transcending the clash of older ideas about matter and space, acclaimed physicist Frank Wilczek explains a remarkable new discovery: matter is built from almost weightless units, and pure energy is the ultimate source of mass. He calls it "The Lightness of Being." Space is no mere container, empty and passive. It is a dynamic Grid-a modern ether- and its spontaneous activity creates and destroys particles. This new understanding of mass explains the puzzling feebleness of gravity, and a gorgeous unification of all the forces comes sharply into focus. The Lightness of Being is the first book to explore the implications of these revolutionary ideas about mass, energy, and the nature of "empty space." In it, Wilczek masterfully presents new perspectives on our incredible universe and envisions a new golden age of fundamental physics. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/446d5b6e25cd8f66eb4a918b4c5f7fb0.png 5e15dff44de58ffbd0ade46db29b5b25 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Natuurkunde Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-5216-5252-0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NAT0992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gordon Fraser Title A name given to the resource Antimatter: the ultimate mirror Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cambridge University Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2000 Description An account of the resource This book introduces the world of antimatter without using technical language or equations. The author shows how the quest for symmetry in physics slowly revealed the properties of antimatter. When large particle accelerators came on line, the antimatter debris of collisions provided new clues on its properties. This is a fast-paced and lucid account of how science fiction became fact. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/8e74d454be84f2eccf71f32372dafbb1.png bec146a37d1089144ae6b1dc132764f4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Natuurkunde Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-5218-0316-8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NAT0989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Prabhakar Gondhalekar Title A name given to the resource The grip of gravity Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Cambridge University Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2001 Description An account of the resource Gravity is one of the most inexplicable forces of nature, controlling everything, from the expansion of the Universe to the ebb and flow of ocean tides. The search for the laws of motion and gravitation began more than two thousand years ago, a quest that Prabhakar Gondhalekar recounts in The Grip of Gravity. Beginning with Aristotle and concluding with Planck, Gondhalekar outlines a 'genealogy' of gravity and lucidly explains how previous explanations have shaped the most recent development in the field, string theory. In this work, physicist and astronomer Gondhalekar describes experiments, both planned and proposed, and clearly explains natural phenomena like ocean tides, seasons, ice ages, the formation of planets, stars, and exotic objects like black holes and neutron stars, which are all controlled by gravity. Including anecdotes and thumb-nail sketches of the personalities involved, The Grip of Gravity provides an introduction to the foundation of modern physics and shows how the current developments in string theory may lead to a new and radical interpretation of gravity. Prabhakar Gondhalekar is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College, London. Until his retirement in 1998, he was the head of the Space Astronomy Group at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, where he had been a researcher for 18 years. His research has included a number of topics in galactic and extragalactic astronomy, with his major work focusing on the interstellar medium and active galactic nuclei. Gondhalekar has been awarded Royal Society, Leverhulme Trust, and NATO Research Fellowships to do research in universities in the United States and Israel. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/b8d95b248e93a93e88b0c92b76ac669a.png 32c3223cd220b660af4019552d009198 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Natuurkunde Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-2976-4301-2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NAT0986 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lee Smolin Title A name given to the resource Three roads to quantum gravity Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Orion Publisher Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2000 Description An account of the resource 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: relativity deals exclusively with the universe at the large scale (planets, solar systems and galaxies), whereas quantum theory is restricted to the domain of the very small (molecules, atoms, electrons). Here, Lee Smolin provides the first accessible overview of current attempts to reconcile these two theories. Some of these approaches view the world as a hologram; others hold that basic particles must be string-like; others still draw on the physics of black holes. Smolin believes that each of these different approaches may be partially right, although he contends that none on its own is likely to be the whole truth. Nevertheless, he says, there are signs that they are beginning to converge on a final theory. Written with wit and style, Three Roads to Quantum Gravity provides a brief introduction to modern concepts of space and time. It touches on some of the deepest questions about the nature of the universe – are space and time continuous or infinitely divisible? Is there a limit to how small things can be? – while speculating on what developments we can expect at the frontiers of physics in the twenty-first century. In Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin provides an accessible overview of the attempts to build a final "theory of everything." He explains in simple terms what scientists are talking about when they say the world is made from exotic entities such as loops, strings, and black holes and tells the fascinating stories behind these discoveries: the rivalries, epiphanies, and intrigues he witnessed first hand. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/74a7e7f7cc3e4dbdcd27caf80ec9ac27.png 4b2a9a40aed8c9f219fbb4635e54523e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Natuurkunde Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-4715-0127-5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NAT0983 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Bryan Bunch Title A name given to the resource Reality's Mirror Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Wiley Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Description An account of the resource Reality's Mirror Exploring the Mathematics of Symmetry "Here is a book that explains in laymen language what symmetry is all about, from the lowliest snowflake and flounder to the lofty group structures whose astonishing applications to the Old One are winning Nobel prizes. Bunch's book is a marvel of clear, witty science writing, as delightful to read as it is informative and up-to-date. The author is to be congratulated on a job well done." --Martin Gardner "Bryan Bunch's ambidextrous mind leaps with ease from biology to physics as he explores the question of symmetry and handedness in the universe. An excellent treatment of the pervasiveness of symmetry in nature and an admirable weaving of common threads from many diverse fields." --Dr. Eugene F. Mallove Chief Science Writer Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Reality's Mirror is fascinating. It really is something of a grand tour of symmetry in the universe: why it must be here--and what happens when it isn't." --R. L. Graham Director, Mathematical Sciences Research Center AT&T Bell Laboratories Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/cd2ca2d8b46c268d09729d7494cfc368.png fcd7eefd66f35d409f14b6df98e63acc Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Natuurkunde Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-2978-1985-1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NAT0980 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Julian Barbour Title A name given to the resource The end of time Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Oxford University Press Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1999 Description An account of the resource Richard Feynman once quipped that "Time is what happens when nothing else does." But Julian Barbour disagrees: if nothing happened, if nothing changed, then time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change that we perceive occurring all around us, not time. Put simply, time does not exist. In this highly provocative volume, Barbour presents the basic evidence for a timeless universe, and shows why we still experience the world as intensely temporal. It is a book that strikes at the heart of modern physics. It casts doubt on Einstein's greatest contribution, the spacetime continuum, but also points to the solution of one of the great paradoxes of modern science, the chasm between classical and quantum physics. Indeed, Barbour argues that the holy grail of physicists--the unification of Einstein's general relativity with quantum mechanics--may well spell the end of time. Barbour writes with remarkable clarity as he ranges from the ancient philosophers Heraclitus and Parmenides, through the giants of science Galileo, Newton, and Einstein, to the work of the contemporary physicists John Wheeler, Roger Penrose, and Steven Hawking. Along the way he treats us to enticing glimpses of some of the mysteries of the universe, and presents intriguing ideas about multiple worlds, time travel, immortality, and, above all, the illusion of motion. The End of Time is a vibrantly written and revolutionary book. It turns our understanding of reality inside-out. Language A language of the resource Engels https://bib.cozmix.cloud/files/original/c1e5decbdbc103a19a579776d51f93bc.png 0d4eee905bbf16950f790f7a4b05a900 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Natuurkunde Boek Een boek. ISBN International Standard Book Number 9-780-6185-5105-7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NAT0977 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lee Smolin Title A name given to the resource The trouble with physics Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Houghton Mifflin Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2006 Description An account of the resource 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 have captured the public’s imagination -- and the imagination of experts. But these ideas have not been tested experimentally, and some, like string theory, seem to offer no possibility of being tested. Yet these speculations dominate the field, attracting the best talent and much of the funding and creating a climate in which emerging physicists are often penalized for pursuing other avenues. As Smolin points out, the situation threatens to impede the very progress of science. With clarity, passion, and authority, Smolin offers an unblinking assessment of the troubles that face modern physics -- and an encouraging view of where the search for the next big idea may lead. REMARK; The author discusses this book on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIEorqJCQ2k Language A language of the resource Engels