Seeking ultimates : an intuitive guide to physics /

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Landsberg, Peter Theodore
Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Pub., �2000.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 1. What this book is about
  • 2. There is no free lunch. Temperature and energy: science for the environment / Count Rumford
  • 3. Painting by numbers. Elements and particles: science as prediction / Dmitri Mendeleev
  • 4. Why you cannot unscramble an egg. Time and entropy: science and the unity of knowledge / Ludwig Boltzmann
  • 5. How a butterfly caused a tornado. Chaos and life: science as synthesis / Charles Darwin
  • 6. Now you see it, now you don't. Quantum theory: science and the invention of concepts / Max Planck
  • 7. The galactic highway. Cosmology: science as history / Albert Einstein
  • 8. Weirdness or purity. Mathematics: science as numbers / Arthur Eddington
  • 9. The last question. Does God exist? / Blaise Pascal.