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Include books by the same authorThe Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
Fritjof Capra · 352 pages
The Tao of Physics is a book about the relationship between physics and spirituality. The book explores the parallels between Eastern mysticism and modern physics. It discusses the similarities between the two fields, and how they can be used to help understand each other. The book also discusses the concept of the Tao, or the way, and how it relates to physics. The Tao of Physics is consid
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
Werner Heisenberg · 206 pages
The seminal work by one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century, Physics and Philosophy is Werner Heisenberg's concise and accessible narrative of the revolution in modern physics, in which he played a towering role. The outgrowth of a celebrated lecture series, this book remains as relevant, provocative, and fascinating as when it was first published in 1958. A brilliant scientist
The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead
Frank J. Tipler · 527 pages
Frank J. Tipler is a major theoretician in the field of global general relativity, the rarefied branch of physics created by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose. Like most modern scientists, Tipler was an atheist who gave little thought to questions of theology. Yet, in devising a mathematical model of the end of the universe, Tipler came to a stunning conclusion: Using the most advanced and sophis
The Nature of Space and Time
Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose · 145 pages
Het verslag van een zeldzame confrontatie tussen twee kosmologische kopstukken. De twee eminente Britse natuurkundigen Stephen Hawking en Roger Penrose hebben een tegengestelde visie op de toekomst van het heelal, hoewel beide proberen de algemene relativiteitstheorie te verenigen met de kwantummechanica. In dit boek komt naar voren hoezeer hun standpunten over het uiteindelijke lot van het heela
The Emperor's New Mind Concerning Computers, Minds and the Laws of Physics
Roger Penrose, Martin Gardner · 480 pages
Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
Roger Penrose · 296 pages
"A groundbreaking book providing a new take on three of cosmology's most profound questions: What, if anything, came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? What is the universe's ultimate future? Current understanding of our universe dictates that all matter will eventually thin out to zero density, with huge black holes finally evaporating away into massless energy. Ro
Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries
John Gribbin · 272 pages
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
Jim Holt · 309 pages
Why is there a world rather than nothing at all? This question remains the most curious and most enduring of all metaphysical mysteries. Moving away from the narrower paths of Christopher Hitchens, Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking who insist that science alone is capable of explaining how our cosmos came into being, the author enters this debate as he examines our efforts to grasp the origins of
Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
Leonard Susskind, Art Friedman · 384 pages
Explains the theory and associated mathematics of quantum mechanics, discussing topics ranging from uncertainty and time dependence to particle and wave states.
The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction
Peter Atkins · 103 pages
The Universe in the Rearview Mirror: How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality
Dave Goldberg · 330 pages
The Einstein Theory of Relativity
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz · 30 pages
Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
David Lindley · 272 pages
The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.--Werner HeisenbergThat God would choose to play dice with the world is something I cannot believe.--Albert EinsteinNothing exists until it is measured.--Neils BohrThe remarkable story of a startling scientific idea that ignited a battle among the greatest minds of the twentieth
The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn
Louisa Gilder · 443 pages
Understanding Physics 3 volumes in 1 - Motion, Sound & Heat + Light, Magnetism & Electricity + The Electron, Proton & Neutron
Isaac Asimov · 768 pages
Volume one traces the theoretical exploration of these concepts from an essentially Newtonian viewpoint. Newton's great achievement was in synthesizing the laws of motion and energy and in developing a unifying theory of universal gravitation. Concepts now considered common knowledge were at the time seen as so far fetched that even Newton himself felt that, although they must obey the natural law
The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality
Richard Panek · 297 pages
In exhilarating and behind-the-scenes detail, Panek takes his readers on a tour of the bitter rivalries and fruitful collaborations, the eureka moments and blind alleys, that have fuelled the search, redefined science, and reinvented the universe. Science journalist Panek (The Invisible Century) offers an insider's view of the quest for what could be the ultimate revelation: the true substance of
The Physics of Superheroes: Spectacular Second Edition
James Kakalios · 424 pages
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Janna Levin · 241 pages
"In 1916, Einstein became the first to predict the existence of gravitational waves: sounds without a material medium generated by the unfathomably energy-producing collision of black holes. Now, Janna Levin, herself an astrophysicist, recounts the story of the search, over the last fifty years, for these elusive waves--a quest that has culminated in the creation of the most expensive project ever
Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science
Ian Sample · 283 pages
This science story, the biggest of our time, spans four decades, weaving together the personal narratives and international rivalries behind the search for the "God particle," or Higgs boson. A story of grand ambition, intense competition, clashing egos, and occasionally spectacular failures, Massive is the first book that reveals the science, culture, and politics behind the biggest unanswered qu
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Helen Czerski · 273 pages
"A physicist explains daily phenomena from the mundane to the magisterial. Take a look up at the stars on a clear night and you get a sense that the universe is vast and untouchable, full of mysteries beyond comprehension. But did you know that the key to unveiling the secrets of the cosmos is as close as the nearest toaster? In Storm in a Teacup, Helen Czerski provides the tools to alter the way