The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection, 250 Milestones in the History of Physics
- ISBN-10
- 1402778619
- ISBN-13
- 9781402778612
- Category
- Physics
- Pages
- 527
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
- Author
- Clifford A. Pickover
Description
Containing 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries, this book explores such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwell's demon. The timeline extends back billions of years to the hypothetical Big Bang and forward trillions of years to a time of quantum resurrection.
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