Birth Of A New Physics
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Author | : I. Bernard Cohen |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393019940 |
Relates man's search from the sixteenth century to the present for a physics to describe the dynamics of a universe in motion.
Author | : Michel Serres |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2018-01-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1786606267 |
Michel Serres is one of the most influential living theorists in European philosophy. This volume makes available a work which has a foundational place in the development of chaos theory, representing a tour de force application of the principles underlying Serres’ distinctive philosophy of science.
Author | : Bernard I. Cohen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Physics |
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Author | : Laurie M. Brown |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1986-10-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521338370 |
A distinctive collection of essays, discussions, and personal descriptions of the evolution of particle physics.
Author | : Irwin Bernard Cohen (history of science) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : Bernard Cohen |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393300451 |
Relates man's search from the sixteenth century to the present for a physics to describe the dynamics of a universe in motion.
Author | : Gino Segrè |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2016-10-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1627790063 |
Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction and conversely to life-saving medical interventions. This unassuming man struggled with issues relevant today, such as the threat of nuclear annihilation and the relationship of science to politics. Fleeing Fascism and anti-Semitism, Fermi became a leading figure in America's most secret project: building the atomic bomb. The last physicist who mastered all branches of the discipline, Fermi was a rare mixture of theorist and experimentalist. His rich legacy encompasses key advances in fields as diverse as comic rays, nuclear technology, and early computers. In their revealing book, The Pope of Physics, Gino Segré and Bettina Hoerlin bring this scientific visionary to life. An examination of the human dramas that touched Fermi’s life as well as a thrilling history of scientific innovation in the twentieth century, this is the comprehensive biography that Fermi deserves.
Author | : Fulvio Melia |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2009-10-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226519546 |
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity describes the effect of gravitation on the shape of space and the flow of time. But for more than four decades after its publication, the theory remained largely a curiosity for scientists; however accurate it seemed, Einstein’s mathematical code—represented by six interlocking equations—was one of the most difficult to crack in all of science. That is, until a twenty-nine-year-old Cambridge graduate solved the great riddle in 1963. Roy Kerr’s solution emerged coincidentally with the discovery of black holes that same year and provided fertile testing ground—at long last—for general relativity. Today, scientists routinely cite the Kerr solution, but even among specialists, few know the story of how Kerr cracked Einstein’s code. Fulvio Melia here offers an eyewitness account of the events leading up to Kerr’s great discovery. Cracking the Einstein Code vividly describes how luminaries such as Karl Schwarzschild, David Hilbert, and Emmy Noether set the stage for the Kerr solution; how Kerr came to make his breakthrough; and how scientists such as Roger Penrose, Kip Thorne, and Stephen Hawking used the accomplishment to refine and expand modern astronomy and physics. Today more than 300 million supermassive black holes are suspected of anchoring their host galaxies across the cosmos, and the Kerr solution is what astronomers and astrophysicists use to describe much of their behavior. By unmasking the history behind the search for a real world solution to Einstein’s field equations, Melia offers a first-hand account of an important but untold story. Sometimes dramatic, often exhilarating, but always attuned to the human element, Cracking the Einstein Code is ultimately a showcase of how important science gets done.
Author | : Cédric Villani |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2015-04-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374710236 |
In 2010, French mathematician Cédric Villani received the Fields Medal, the most coveted prize in mathematics, in recognition of a proof which he devised with his close collaborator Clément Mouhot to explain one of the most surprising theories in classical physics. Birth of aTheorem is Villani's own account of the years leading up to the award. It invites readers inside the mind of a great mathematician as he wrestles with the most important work of his career. But you don't have to understand nonlinear Landau damping to love Birth of aTheorem. It doesn't simplify or overexplain; rather, it invites readers into collaboration. Villani's diaries, emails, and musings enmesh you in the process of discovery. You join him in unproductive lulls and late-night breakthroughs. You're privy to the dining-hall conversations at the world's greatest research institutions. Villani shares his favorite songs, his love of manga, and the imaginative stories he tells his children. In mathematics, as in any creative work, it is the thinker's whole life that propels discovery—and with Birth of aTheorem, Cédric Villani welcomes you into his.
Author | : Roger Penrose |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2024-10-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0691264317 |
Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theory What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and bestselling author Roger Penrose argues that researchers working at the extreme frontiers of physics are just as susceptible to these forces as anyone else. In this provocative book, he argues that fashion, faith, and fantasy, while sometimes productive and even essential in physics, may be leading today's researchers astray in three of the field's most important areas—string theory, quantum mechanics, and cosmology. Arguing that string theory has veered away from physical reality by positing six extra hidden dimensions, Penrose cautions that the fashionable nature of a theory can cloud our judgment of its plausibility. In the case of quantum mechanics, its stunning success in explaining the atomic universe has led to an uncritical faith that it must also apply to reasonably massive objects, and Penrose responds by suggesting possible changes in quantum theory. Turning to cosmology, he argues that most of the current fantastical ideas about the origins of the universe cannot be true, but that an even wilder reality may lie behind them. Finally, Penrose describes how fashion, faith, and fantasy have ironically also shaped his own work, from twistor theory, a possible alternative to string theory that is beginning to acquire a fashionable status, to "conformal cyclic cosmology," an idea so fantastic that it could be called "conformal crazy cosmology." The result is an important critique of some of the most significant developments in physics today from one of its most eminent figures.