Schwartz J. Einstein for Beginners

Vintage, 2000, 384 Pages What conceptual blind spot kept the ancient Greeks (unlike the Indians and Maya) from developing a concept of zero? Why did St. Augustine equate nothingness with the Devil? What tortuous means did 17th-century scientists employ in their attempts to create a vacuum? And why do contemporary quantum physicists believe that the void is actually seething with subatomic activity? You'll find the answers in this dizzyingly eru...

By Princeton University Press. Дерри Грегори Нейл. "Что такое наука и как она работает". 1999 г. , 311 стр. На английском языке. Качество высокое (PDF-оригинал). «Science, » writes physicist Gregory Derry, «is the active and creative engagement of our minds with nature in an attempt to understand. » Not to understand anything in particular, mind you—just to understand, to gain a sense of our place in the world. Whether viewed as a body of knowled...

The University of Chicago Press, 2011, 268 pages Sci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe that can't be averted? Just pop back in the timestream and stop it before it starts. But for those of us not lucky enough to live in a science-fictional universe, are these ideas merely flights of fancy—or could it really be possible to trav...

Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2004, 384 pages Does just thinking about the laws of motion make your head spin? Does studying electricity short your circuits? Do the complexities of thermodynamics cool your enthusiasm? Thanks to this book, you don’t have to be Einstein to understand physics. As you read about Newton’s Laws, Kepler’s Laws, Hooke’s Law, Ohm’s Law, and others, you’ll appreciate the For Dummies law: The easier we make it, the faster peopl...

1997, Oxford University Press , 260 р. What is superstring theory and why is it important? Can superstrings offer the fulfilment of Einstein's lifelong dream of a Theory of Everything? Co-authored by Michio Kaku, one of the leading pioneers of superstrings, this is a thrilling account of the discoveries that have led scientists to the brightest new prospect in theoretical physics today. With all the excitement of a detective story, this book con...

Prometheus Books, 2004, 363 pages When scientists peer through a telescope at the distant stars in outer space or use a particle-accelerator to analyse the smallest components of matter, they discover that the same laws of physics govern the whole universe at all times and all places.Physicists call the eternal, ubiquitous constancy of the laws of physics symmetry. Symmetry is the basic underlying principle that defines the laws of nature and h...

World Scientific Publishing Company, 2010, 332 pages This is a textbook for a survey course in physics taught without mathematics, that also takes into account the social impact and influences from the arts and society. It combines physics, literature, history and philosophy from the dawn of human life to the 21st century. It will also be of interest to the general reader. This book attempts to remedy this classical situation by communicating...