The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, by Clifford A. Pickover

By Clifford A. Pickover

 
Following the highly winning The technological know-how Book and The Math Book comes a richly illustrated chronology of physics, containing 250 brief, unique, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such enticing subject matters as darkish strength, parallel universes, the Doppler impact, the God particle, and Maxwell's demon, the book's timeline extends again billions of years to the hypothetical colossal Bang and ahead trillions of years to a time of “quantum resurrection.” just like the past titles during this sequence, The Physics Book is helping readers achieve an realizing of significant strategies with no getting slowed down in complicated info.

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