Explaining the universe : the new age of physics /
Publisher's description: John Charap offers a panoramic view of the physicist's world as the twenty-first century opens. The view is entirely different from the one that greeted the twentieth century. We have learned that the universe is billions of galaxies larger than we imagined--and bi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Physics 1900
- 3. Heavens Above
- 4. Chance and Certainty
- 5. Order out of Chaos
- 6. Your Place or Mine
- 7. Many Histories, Many Futures
- 8. Microcosm
- 9. Weighty Matters
- 10. Strings
- 11. In the Beginning
- 12. Down to Earth
- 13. Epilogue.