Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780571346387
Publisert
2020-02-20
Utgiver
Faber & Faber
Vekt
414 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
304
Forfatter
Biografisk notat
Marcus Chown is an award-winning science writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is now cosmology consultant for the New Scientist. He is the author of Solar System for iPad, which won a Bookseller Award for Digital Innovation. His acclaimed books include What a Wonderful World, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, We Need to Talk about Kelvin and The Ascent of Gravity, which was a Sunday Times Science Book of the Year. He lives in London. www.marcuschown.com @marcuschown
The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power.
'An excellent popular science book.'
DARA Ó BRIAIN
'A thoroughly informative and entertaining read.'
ANNA BURNS, Booker Prize-winning author of Milkman
'One of the best-written books about phsyics I have ever come across.'
POPULAR SCIENCE
'Highly entertaining and accessible.' IRISH TIMES
'Fascinating, life enhancing entertainment.' PROSPECT
'Thoroughly enjoyable . . . Chown has down it again.' BBC SKY AT NIGHT
The Magicians takes us on a breathtaking, mind-altering tour of the eureka! moments of modern physics. Charting the spellbinding stories of the scientists who predicted and discovered the existence of unknown planets, black holes, invisible force fields, ripples in the fabric of space-time, unsuspected subatomic particles and even antimatter, Marcus Chown reveals science's greatest mystery: its astonishing predictive power.
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In 1965 Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered the heat afterglow of the big bang.
- How Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein in 1924 predicted the existence of a weird state of matter close to absolute zero in which trillions of atoms behave as a single entity.
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Leads the reader through many of the wonders of twentieth century physics with a light and sometimes quirky touch ... It is so full of little insights and neat analogies that I found myself folding over the top corners of countless pages containing quotable passages. What is remarkable is the number of new ways Marcus Chown has found to explain difficult and often abstract concepts. This is what good popular science writing is all about.
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The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780571346387
Publisert
2020-02-20
Utgiver
Faber & Faber
Vekt
414 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
304
Forfatter