Explaining the Universe : : The New Age of Physics /

Explaining the Universe : : The New Age of Physics / / John M. Charap.

In this fascinating book, John Charap offers a panoramic view of the physicist's world as the twenty-first century opens--a view that is entirely different from the one that greeted the twentieth century. We have learned that the universe is billions of galaxies larger than we imagined--and bil...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Charap, John M.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2002
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • A Note on Numbers
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. PHYSICS 1900
  • 3. HEAVENS ABOVE
  • 4. CHANCE AND CERTAINTY
  • 5. ORDER OUT OF CHAOS
  • 6. YOUR PLACE OR MINE
  • 7. MANY HISTORIES, MANY FUTURES
  • 8. MICROCOSM
  • 9. WEIGHTY MATTERS
  • 10. STRINGS
  • 11. IN THE BEGINNING
  • 12. DOWN TO EARTH
  • 13. EPILOGUE
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Suggestions for Further Reading
  • Index of Names
  • General Index

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