The Reality Frame: Relativity and Our Place in the Universe - Couverture souple

Clegg, Brian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1785782819 ISBN 13 : 9781785782817

Editeur : Icon Books, 2017

Synopsis

Weaving together the great ideas of science, in this, his magnum opus, Brian Clegg builds up reality piece by piece, from space, to time, to matter, movement, the fundamental forces, life, and the massive transformation that life itself has wrought on the natural world. He reveals that underlying it all is not, as we might believe, a system of immovable absolutes, but the ever-shifting, amorphous world of relativity.

From religion to philosophy, humanity has traditionally sought out absolutes to explain the world around us, but as science has developed, relativity has swept away many of these certainties, leaving only a handful of unchangeable essentials - such as absolute zero, nothingness, light - leading to better science and a new understanding of the essence of being human.

This is an Ascent of Man for the 21st century, the gripping story of modern science that will fill you with wonder and give you a new insight into our place in the universe.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Science writer Brian Clegg studied physics at Cambridge and specialises in making the strangest aspects of the universe accessible to the general reader. He is editor of popularscience.co.uk and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His previous books include Inflight Science, The Universe Inside You and Science for Life.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Icon Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1785782819
• ISBN 13: 9781785782817
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
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• Personne responsable: non disponible