
The Physics Book
From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection
Clifford A. Pickover(Author)
Union Square & Co. (Publisher)
Published on 27. February 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
544 pages
978-1-4549-5780-5 (ISBN)
Description
This richly illustrated chronology of physics contains more than 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwell's demon, the book's timeline extends back billions of years to the hypothetical Big Bang and forward trillions of years to a time of "quantum resurrection." This reissue includes four new entries: 2012 (Discovery of the Higgs Boson), 2015 (Gravitational Waves), 2019 (First Image of a Black Hole), and 2023 (Milky Way Neutrino Map). It also features an expanded introduction and updates throughout the book.
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Series
Edition
Revised
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
all in color
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 187 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
1436 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4549-5780-5 (9781454957805)
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Clifford A. Pickover has published more than 50 books, translated into a dozen languages, on topics ranging from science and mathematics to religion, art, and history. He received his PhD degree from Yale University, has been granted more than 800 US patents, and has more than 180,000 X (formerly Twitter) followers. For many years, he was an IBM researcher and inventor and editor-in-chief of the IBM Journal of Research and Development. He is the author of many other books including Death and the Afterlife, The Physics Book, and The Math Book, which won the Neumann Prize. Clifford lives in New York.