The Magicians
Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
(Sprache: Englisch)
The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power.
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The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power.
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'Marcus Chown rocks!' Brian MayHow does it feel to know something about the universe that no one has ever known before? And why is mathematics so magically good at revealing nature's secrets?
This is the story of the magicians: the scientists who, using mathematics, predicted the existence of unknown planets, black holes, invisible force fields, ripples in the fabric of space-time, unsuspected subatomic particles, and even antimatter.
The journey from prediction to proof transports us from seats of learning in Paris and Cambridge to the war-torn Russian front, to bunkers beneath nuclear reactors, observatories in Berlin and California, and huge tunnels under the Swiss-French border. From electromagnetism to Einstein's gravitational waves to Wolfgang Pauli's elusive neutrino, acclaimed science writer Marcus Chown takes us on a breathtaking, mind-altering tour of the major breakthroughs of modern physics and highlights science's central mystery: its astonishing predictive power.
Praise for Marcus Chown:
'What good popular science writing is all about.' Jim Al-Khalili
'Pretty wonderful.' Richard Dawkins
'Entertaining and at times mind-boggling.' The Times
Autoren-Porträt von Marcus Chown
Chown, MarcusMarcus Chown is an award-winning science writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is now cosmology consultant for the New Scientist. His acclaimed books include What a Wonderful World, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, We Need to Talk about Kelvin and The Ascent of Gravity (Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2017). He is also the author of Solar System for iPad, which won The Bookseller 2011 Digital Innovation of the Year.
www.marcuschown.com
@marcuschown
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Marcus Chown
- 2020, 304 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 23,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
- ISBN-10: 0571346391
- ISBN-13: 9780571346394
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.02.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Leads the reader through many of the wonders of twentieth century physics with a light and sometimes quirky touch ... It is so full of little insights and neat analogies that I found myself folding over the top corners of countless pages containing quotable passages. What is remarkable is the number of new ways Marcus Chown has found to explain difficult and often abstract concepts. This is what good popular science writing is all about. Jim Al-Khalili (On Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You)
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