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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
"In Helgoland, Carlo Rovelli examines the enduring enigma of quantum theory. The quantum world Rovelli describes is as beautiful as it is unnerving. Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the 21-year-old Werner Heisenberg first developed quantum theory, setting off a century of scientific revolution. Full of alarming ideas (ghost waves, distant objects that seem to be magically connected, cats that appear both dead and alive), quantum...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks eXplore
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
29 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
Chris Ferrie has delighted children and families around the world with his unique take on science. And now it's time for beginning readers to learn this information for themselves! From general relativity to quantum physics, from astrophysics to rocket science and from robotics to climate change, BRAINY SCIENCE will intrigue and teach young scientists a variety of subjects with simple, easy-to-read text. These beginning reader books include: easy...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
The authors-- one a philosopher, the other a physicist-- draw on their training and six years of co-teaching to dramatize the quantum's rocky path from scientific theory to public understanding while also exploring the quantum's manifestations in everything from art and sculpture to the prose of John Updike and David Foster Wallace.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xi, 370 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Discusses recent discoveries in physics and cosmology to explore a range of multiverse proposals, and examines how the knowledge that some aspects of reality may lie beyond human comprehension might affect scientific progress.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xi, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? It is remarkable that in this age of cloning and even synthetic biology, nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredient in its creation? Like Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene which provided a new perspective on evolution by shifting the focus of natural selection from...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of light years out into the cosmos. Its kind were the very first inhabitants of the universe, the black holes. Join Professors Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw in exploring our universe's most mysterious inhabitants, how they are formed, why they are essential components of every galaxy, including our own, and what secrets they still hold, waiting...
12) Version control
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
viii, 495 pages ; 25 cm
Description
The compelling story of a couple living in the wake of a personal tragedy. She is a star employee of an online dating company, while he is a physicist, performing experiments that, if ever successful, may have unintended consequences, altering the nature of their lives and perhaps of reality itself. Rebecca Wright has gotten her life back, finding her way out of grief and depression following a personal tragedy years ago. She spends her days working...
13) Helgoland
Author
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
212 páginas ; 22 cm
Description
En junio de 1925, Werner Heisenberg, de veintitrés años, se retira a Helgoland, una pequeña isla en el Mar del Norte, sin árboles y batida por el viento, para descansar y tratar de apaciguar la alergia que padece. Insomne, pasea por la noche para reflexionar y al alba da con una idea que transformará la ciencia y nuestra concepción del mundo. Ha puesto la primera piedra de la teoría cuántica. Carlo Rovelli, que a su profesión de físico añade...
Author
Series
Evan Ryder novels volume 4
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
Evan Ryder is an extraordinary intelligence field agent now working for the security arm of Parachute, a private company and the world's leader in the application of quantum technology. In the past, Ryder has done lethal battle in the modern global wars of power politics, extremist ideology, corrosive disinformation, and outrageous greed. But now she finds herself in a battle arena whose dangers, while less obvious, are greater than anything the world...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xvi, 448 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.. ports. ; 25 cm.
Description
Describes the conflict between Einstein and Bohr over the nature of reality and the soul of science as the author discusses quantum theory -- "an idea that ignited the greatest intellectual debate of the twentieth century."
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
On July 4, 2012, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN gathered to make a momentous announcement: after nearly a half century of speculation and work, the Higgs boson had been found, and the mystery of mass solved. Not far offstage was the man for whom the particle had been named: Peter Higgs. The Higgs boson is an anomaly. No other basic particle of physics is named after a person. And in a point of almost supreme irony, it is named after...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
x, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
This Way to the Universe is a celebration of the astounding, ongoing scientific investigations that have revealed the nature of reality at its smallest, at its largest, and at the scale of our daily lives. The enigmas that Professor Michael Dine discusses are like landmarks on a fantastic journey to the edge of the universe. Asked where to find out about the Big Bang, Dark Matter, the Higgs boson particle--the long cutting edge of physics right now--Dine...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Physical Desc
xii, 321 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"This books takes us into the heart of the quantum revolution. He tells the story of Schr©œdinger's surprisingly colorful life (he arrived for a position at Oxford University with both his wife and mistress). And with his trade mark accessible style and popular touch explains the fascinating world of quantum mechanics, which underpins all of modern science"--
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