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The quantum story : a history in 40 moments /
The twentieth century was defined by physics. From the minds of the world's leading physicists there flowed a river of ideas that would transport mankind to the pinnacle of wonderment and to the very depths of human despair. This was a century that began with the certainties of absolute knowled...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The twentieth century was defined by physics. From the minds of the world's leading physicists there flowed a river of ideas that would transport mankind to the pinnacle of wonderment and to the very depths of human despair. This was a century that began with the certainties of absolute knowledge and ended with the knowledge of absolute uncertainty. It was a century in which physicists developed weapons with the capacity to destroy our reality, whilst at the same time denying us thepossibility that we can ever properly comprehend it. Almost everything we think we know about the nature of our w. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 469 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-447) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191604294 0191604291 1283117169 9781283117166 9786613117168 6613117161 0191604305 9780191604300 |