This book attempts to get to the bottom of an acute and perennial tension between our best scientific pictures of the fundamental physical structure of the world and our everyday empirical experience of it. The trouble is about the direction of time.…
A highly informative guide to the stars and planetscontaining 160 pages in full colourIncludes 88 constellation descriptions with corresponding sky maps.
A biography of the world’s most famous equation.
Bodanis begins by devoting chapters to each of the equation's letters and symbols, introducing the science and scientists forming the backdrop to Einstein's discovery—from Ole Roemer's revelation that…
E = mc2' -de biografie van de formule die de wereld veranderde, door David Bodanis, is een aanstekelijk verhaal waarin mensen van vlees en bloed de hoofdrol spelen. Bodanis maakt verhelderende uitstapjes naar de kunstgeschiedenis en de psychologie en…
In this classic, David Bohm was the first to offer us his causal interpretation of the quantum theory. Causality and Chance in Modern Physics continues to make possible further insight into the meaning of the quantum theory and to suggest ways of…
In the The Undivided Universe, David Bohn and Basil Hiley present a radically different approach to quantum theory. They develop an interpretation of quantum mechanics which gives a clear, intuitive understanding of its meaning and in which there is…
As the search for Earth-like exoplanets gathers pace, in order to understand them, we need comprehensive theories for how planetary atmospheres form and evolve. Written by two well-known planetary scientists, this text explains the physical and…