Origins: The Cosmos in Verse

Conlon, Joseph

ISBN 10: 0861549112 / ISBN 13: 9780861549115

Edité par Oneworld Publications, 2024

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• Titre: Origins: The Cosmos in Verse
• Éditeur: Oneworld Publications
• Date de parution: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0861549112
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780861549115
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

For centuries poetry and science have been improbable, yet constant, bedfellows. Chaucer was an amateur astronomer; Milton broke bread with Galileo; and, before turning to the arts, Keats was a doctor. Meanwhile, scientific luminaries like Ada Lovelace and James Clerk Maxwell moonlighted as poets, composing verse between experiments and equations. Following in this tradition, theoretical physicist Joseph Conlon spins a dazzling intergalactic epic. Drawing on his scientific expertise, Conlon reveals the origins of our universe through two long-form poems – ‘Elements’ and ‘Galaxies’. Journeying from the Big Bang to the edges of our ever-expanding cosmos, Origins offers a delightful and revelatory adventure through contemporary physics.

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Joseph Conlon is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford and a fellow of New College. His research spans particle physics, string theory, cosmology and astrophysics. He is the author of Why String Theory?, a Physics World Book of the Year in 2016, and has authored over seventy scientific papers.