Frontiers
Twentieth Century Physics
Published on 25. November 1999
532 pages
978-1-040-17691-7 (ISBN)
Description
The revolution in twentieth-century physics has offered answers to many of the big questions of existence, such as the ultimate nature of things and how the universe came into being. It has undermined our belief in a Newtonian mechanistic universe and a deterministic future, posing questions about parallel universes, time-travel, and the origin and end of everything. At the same time we have witnessed amazing attempts at unification so that physicists are able to contemplate the discovery of a single theory of everything from which we could derive the masses and types of all particles and their interactions. This book tells the story of these discoveries and the people who made them, largely through the work of Nobel Prize-winning physicists.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
22,82 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-17691-7 (9781040176917)
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Person
Steve Adams is Head of Physics at the Westminster School, London. His first book was Relativity: An Introduction to Space-time Physics, published by Taylor & Francis in 1997.
Content
Introduction. Space and Time, Quantum Theory, Matter, The Universe, Order and Disorder, Reflections, Timeline, Glossary, Further Reading, Index.
