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  title info:
    title: Do Colors Exist?
    sub title: And Other Profound Physics Questions
  name:
    name part: Cottrell, Seth Stannard.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 278 p. 211 illus., 190 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Why do polished stones look wet? How does the Twin Paradox work? Why are orbits ellipses? How can we be sure that pi never repeats? How does a quantum computer break encryption? Discover the answers to these, and other profound physics questions! This fascinating book presents a collection of articles based on conversations and correspondences between the author and complete strangers about physics and math. The author, a researcher in mathematical physics, responds to dozens of questions posed by inquiring minds from all over the world, ranging from the everyday to the profound. Rather than unnecessarily complex explanations mired in mysterious terminology and symbols, the reader is presented with the reasoning, experiments, and mathematics in a casual, conversational, and often comical style. Neither over-simplified nor over-technical, the lucid and entertaining writing will guide the reader from the each innocent question to a better understanding of the weird and beautiful universe around us. Advance praise for Do Colors Exist?: "Every high school science teacher should have a copy of this book. The individual articles offer enrichment to those students who wish to go beyond a typical 'dry curriculum'. The articles are very fun. I probably laughed out loud every 2-3 minutes. This is not easy to do. In fact, my children are interested in the book because they heard me laughing so much." - Ken Ono, Emory University.
  table of contents: Big Things -- Small Things -- In-Between Things -- Not Things -- Index.
  note: by Seth Stannard Cottrell.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Computer science-Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Computer mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Applications in Computer Science
  classification: QC19.2-20.85
  classification: 519
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319643618
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64361-8
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    record creation date: 180507
    record change date: 20191027162108.0
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