Out of this World: Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics - Couverture souple

Webb, Professor Of Australian Studies Stephen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1441918523 ISBN 13 : 9781441918529

Editeur : Copernicus, 2011

Synopsis

Stephen Webb, author of Where Is Everybody?, takes the interested amateur on a thrilling and enlightening tour of the amazing, even bizarre, new ideas of modern physics, including alternatives to the Big Bang, parallel universes, and an imaginary trip to the other side of the black hole.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stephen Webb works in Learning and Teaching Solutions at the Open University, England, and is the author of WHERE IS EVERYBODY? (Copernicus Books, 2002.)

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Seeing beyond the Big Bang. . .

Although it is now almost unanimously accepted that the cosmos started with the Big Bang, we still have no plausible theory for the forces that set this creative cataclysm in motion. Some of the most profound questions of modern science arise out of the difficulties scientists have explaining how our Universe was born. What happened, indeed what was, before the Big Bang? During the past few years cosmologists have begun to develop new ideas, sometimes fantastic, that are beginning to shed light on such questions.

In OUT OF THIS WORLD, Stephen Webb examines these amazing recent theories. After introducing general relativity and quantum mechnanics-the twin foundations of twentieth-century physics-he explains how they are fundamentally incompatible. Then, in a series of increasingly astonishing chapters, he introduces us to the seemingly outlandish and bizarre proposals-from almost unbelievably small particles to huge membranes that may envelope the Universe-that physicists have devised to account for this incompatibility, ultimately leading us to wholly new realms of understanding.

Webb makes these strange and wonderful goings-on accessible, engaging, and enjoyable, conveying not just what theorists have begun to believe about the cosmos, but the awe and excitement felt by scientists as this new picture of the Universe slowly emerges.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Copernicus
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1441918523
• ISBN 13: 9781441918529
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 308
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