Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 629 g
Introducing the Universe
Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 629 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-921726-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Modern physics has revealed the universe as a much stranger place than we could have imagined. The puzzle at the centre of our knowledge of the universe is time. Michael Lockwood takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the nature of things. He investigates philosophical questions about past, present, and future, our experience of time, and the possibility of time travel. And he provides the most careful, lively, and up-to-date introduction to the physics of
time and the structure of the universe. He guides us step by step through relativity theory and quantum physics, introducing and explaining the ground-breaking ideas of Newton and Boltzmann, Einstein and Schroedinger, Penrose and Hawking. We zoom in on the behaviour of molecules and atoms, and pull
back to survey the expansion of the universe. We learn about entropy and gravity, black holes and wormholes, about how it all began and where we are all headed. Lockwood's aim is not just to boggle the mind but to lead us towards an understanding of the science and philosophy. Things will never seem the same again after a voyage through The Labyrinth of Time.
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- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeitmessung: Physikalische und Technische Aspekte
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
- Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Zeiterfassung, Chronologie
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
- Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Kosmologie, Urknalltheorie
- Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie