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Het Natuurkundeboek (2011)

by Clifford A. Pickover(Favorite Author)

4.14 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

9089981438 (ISBN13: 9789089981431)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Librero

review 1: Just picked it up from Barnes and nobles this afternoon, and found it difficult to close... Albeit- even I succumb to basic human functions from time to time. Thus far it's proven to be quite insightful and easily approachable. My knowledge of physics is limited at best(currently) but I feel this publication is already doing a fine job by enlightening me on the fundamental discoveries of physics to date. Knowledge seems to lose its viscosity a bit when it's history is understood, and this book does that for me in regards to physics. What a wonderful subject(understatement of the millennium).
review 2: A very impressive tome covering 250 milestones in the history of physics. For each milestone, there is one page of text and a page of photos or drawings. From... more 13.7 billion years in the past (Big Bang) to the present (Large Hadron Collider), this book covers it all.I like the included quotation from Anne Rice in Tales of the Body Thief: "I'll tell you what the Big Bang was, Lestat. It was when the cells of God began to divide."Though the Big Band was proposed by Lemaitre in the early 1930's, it was Fred Hoyle who coined the term in a 1949 radio broadcast.Other milestones:1870--Curveball, Magnus Effect. Turns out there is both physical curving and optical illusions involved.String Theory.Relativity.Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.Schrodinger Wave Equation.Quantum Tunneling.Tachyons.Cosmic Inflation.Cosmological Big Rip--will the universe be destroyed at the young age of 22 billion years by dark energy?Universal Fade-Out--or will the universe live to a ripe old age of 100 trillion years?Quantum Immortality--will we keep showing up somewhere in space and time over and over, randomly?Quantum Resurrection--thermally produced disembodied intelligence: Science Fiction or possibility?Over all, this book is quite a trip through history, past, present, and into the beyond! less

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