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Don't Be Afraid of Physics = Quantum Mechanics, Relativity and Cosmology for Everyone /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Don't Be Afraid of Physics/ by Ross Barrett, Pier Paolo Delsanto.
Reminder of title:	Quantum Mechanics, Relativity and Cosmology for Everyone /
Author:	Barrett, Ross.
other author:	Delsanto, Pier Paolo.
Description:	XVIII, 293 p. 79 illus., 48 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Cosmology. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63409-4
ISBN:	9783030634094

Don't Be Afraid of Physics = Quantum Mechanics, Relativity and Cosmology for Everyone /
Barrett, Ross.

Don't Be Afraid of PhysicsQuantum Mechanics, Relativity and Cosmology for Everyone /[electronic resource] :by Ross Barrett, Pier Paolo Delsanto. - 1st ed. 2021. - XVIII, 293 p. 79 illus., 48 illus. in color.online resource.

Part I: What is science all about? -- The Ultimate Question -- The Meaning of Understanding -- Truth and Beauty -- Gödel, Hawking and the Foundations of Physics -- Part II: Today’s Frontiers -- The Incredible Quantum Mechanics -- Special Relativity -- General Relativity -- The Most Accurate Theory in Physics -- The Standard Model of Fundamental Particles -- How the World Began -- Modern Cosmology -- Part III: Open Questions -- Issues for the Future -- Appendices. .

With the aid of entertaining short stories, anecdotes, lucid explanations and straight-forward figures, this book challenges the perception that the world of physics is inaccessible to the non-expert. Beginning with Neanderthal man, it traces the evolution of human reason and understanding from paradoxes and optical illusions to gravitational waves, black holes and dark energy. On the way, it provides insights into the mind-boggling advances at the frontiers of physics and cosmology. Unsolved problems and contradictions are highlighted, and contentious issues in modern physics are discussed in a non-dogmatic way in a language comprehensible to the non-scientist. It has something for everyone.

ISBN: 9783030634094

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-63409-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

579761
Cosmology.

LC Class. No.: QB980-991

Dewey Class. No.: 523.1

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