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Caltech physicist and author Sean Carroll offers listeners this profile of the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the…
mysterious Higgs boson particle, the subatomic building block that imbues elementary particles with mass. Carroll chronicles how such a complex project got off the ground in the first place and explains why this discovery is so important, and what it means for the future of physics. 2013.The origin of the universe (Science masters.)
By John D Barrow. 1994
Aimed at the non-specialist reader, this book gives the latest account of the status of the Big Bang, looks at…
the enigma of 'dark matter', and considers the possibilities and problems for further investigations. 1994.The mysterious rays: Marie Curie's world (Science Discovery Book Ser.)
By Victor Juhasz, Nancy Veglahn. 1977
The measure of the universe
By Isaac Asimov. 1983
Many people have difficulty in grasping the size of our universe. By using examples of various measurements -- length, pressure,…
time and temperature -- Asimov explains how to relate the unimaginable. For example, the tallest man on record was 9 feet tall while the smallest dinosaur was the size of a chicken. 1983.Astrophysics for young people in a hurry
By Gregory Mone, Neil DeGrasse Tyson. 2019
Pourquoi E=mc2?: et comment ça marche? ((Quai des sciences).)
By Brian Cox, J. R Forshaw, Guy Chouraqui. 2012
" Savez-vous que vous voyagez à la vitesse de la lumière ? Et non seulement vous, mais votre chaise, votre…
table, votre maison, la Terre elle-même ? Bien sûr, nous ne parlons pas ici d'un voyage dans l'espace en trois dimensions, mais dans la structure profonde de l'univers : l'espace-temps. Vous trouvez cela difficile à croire ? Pourtant, c'est bien ce que nous dit la fameuse équation d'Einstein : E = mc2 ! En talentueux passeurs de savoirs, Brian Cox et Jeff Forshaw nous révèlent dans ce livre les mystères de la théorie de la relativité. Grâce à eux, même sans bagage mathématique, vous pourrez percer les secrets de l'équation la plus célèbre du monde ! " -- 4e de couv. 2012. Titre uniforme: Why does E = MC²?Le mètre du monde
By Denis Guedj. 2000
View from a height
By Isaac Asimov. 1964
The cosmological milk shake: a semi-serious look at the size of things
By Robert Ehrlich. 1994
A physicist's humourous short essays concerning the size, weight, and distance of objects. Answers such questions as "How Tall Can…
Trees Grow?", "How Far Is the Sun?", and "What Does Air Weigh?" 1994.Relativity: the special and the general theory
By Albert Einstein. 1961
Scientist Albert Einstein presents his theory of relativity--the measurement and study of space and time--for the layman who "is not…
conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics." Originally published in 1916. This fifteenth edition includes five appendixes. 1961. Uniform title: Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie.Le cantique des quantiques: le monde existe-t-il ?
By Sven Ortoli, Jean-Pierre Pharabod. 2004
L'esprit, cet inconnu ((Que sais-je? ; 698))
By Jean Emile Charon. 1977
Des atomes et des hommes ((Idées nrf ; 195))
By Louis Leprince-Ringuet. 1966
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
By Randall Munroe. 2019
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the…
#1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and getting to your appointments on time by destroying the Moon. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun. By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and amusing illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
By Sean Carroll. 2019
Caltech physicist and New York Times bestselling author Sean Carroll shows that there are multiple copies of you. And everyone…
else. Really. Something Deeply Hidden begins with the news that physics is in a crisis. Quantum mechanics underlies all of modern physics but major gaps in the theory have been ignored since 1927. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how contradictory, how impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Putting his professional reputation on the line, Carroll says that crisis can now come to an end. We just have to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. There are many, many Sean Carrolls. Many of every one of us. The Many Worlds Theory of quantum behavior says that every time there is a quantum event, a world splits off with everything in it the same, except in that other world the quantum event didn't happen. Since the beginning of the universe about fourteen billion years ago, this has happened about ten to the tenth to the one-hundredth power times. Step-by-step in Carroll's uniquely lucid way, he sets out the major objections to this utterly mind-blowing notion until his case is inescapably established. The holy grail of modern physics is reconciling quantum mechanics with Einstein's general relativity- his theory of curved spacetime. Carroll argues that our refusal to face up to the mysteries of quantum mechanics has blinded us, and that spacetime and gravity naturally emerge from a deeper reality called the wave function. No book for a popular audience has attempted to make this radical argument. We're on the threshold of a new way of understanding the cosmos.An astonishing exploration of planet formation and the origins of life by one of the world's most innovative planetary geologists.In…
1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 took the first photos of the far side of the moon. Even in their poor resolution, the images stunned scientists: the far side is an enormous mountainous expanse, not the vast lava-plains seen from Earth. Subsequent missions have confirmed this in much greater detail. How could this be, and what might it tell us about our own place in the universe? As it turns out, quite a lot. Fourteen billion years ago, the universe exploded into being, creating galaxies and stars. Planets formed out of the leftover dust and gas that coalesced into larger and larger bodies orbiting around each star. In a sort of heavenly survival of the fittest, planetary bodies smashed into each other until solar systems emerged. Curiously, instead of being relatively similar in terms of composition, the planets in our solar system, and the comets, asteroids, satellites and rings, are bewitchingly distinct. So, too, the halves of our moon. In When the Earth Had Two Moons, esteemed planetary geologist Erik Asphaug takes us on an exhilarating tour through the farthest reaches of time and our galaxy to find out why. Beautifully written and provocatively argued, When the Earth Had Two Moons is not only a mind-blowing astronomical tour but a profound inquiry into the nature of life here-and billions of miles from home.Le pays qu'habitait Albert Einstein: essai
By Étienne Klein. 2018
" Albert Einstein, c'est l'audace intellectuelle alliée à une fraîcheur déconcertante, c'est l'imagination ardente soutenue par une obstination imperturbable. Mais…
comment approcher une façon de penser et de créer à nulle autre pareille ? Étienne Klein est parti sur ses traces, il s'est attaché aux époques et aux villes où le destin d'Einstein a basculé : Aarau où, à seize ans, Einstein se demande ce qu'il se passerait s'il chevauchait un rayon de lumière ; Zurich, où il devient ingénieur en 1901 et se passionne pour la physique expérimentale ; Berne où, entre mars et septembre 1905, il publie cinq articles, dont celui sur la relativité restreinte qui révolutionnera les relations de l'espace et du temps, tout en travaillant à l'Office fédéral de la propriété intellectuelle ; Prague où, en 1912, il a l'idée que la lumière est déviée par la gravitation, esquissant ainsi la future théorie de la relativité générale. Puis Bruxelles, Anvers et, enfin, Le Coq-sur-Mer où, en 1933, Einstein se réfugie quelques mois avant de quitter l'Europe pour les États-Unis. Définitivement. "Le violon d'Einstein: variations sur le temps, les quanta, l'infini
By Yann Verdo. 2018
Quand il ne se lançait pas dans ses fructueuses réflexions sur la nature de l'espace et du temps, Einstein jouait…
du violon ou fumait la pipe, et ces deux objets ne sont certes pas pour rien dans l'élaboration de ses théories. Et même si chacun de nous n'atteint pas des sphères de la pensée aussi vertigineuses que lui, l'art de penser à côté est accessible à tous. Yann Verdo le montre ici, en pratiquant la physique en amateur averti, et en nous invitant à plonger avec lui dans la physique quantique, la relativité générale et la logique. De ses rencontres imaginaires avec Einstein, Cantor et Gödel résultent une familiarité nouvelle avec ces individus hors du commun, et une compréhension profonde des grands thèmes - le temps, l'infini, la matière - qu'ils ont révolutionnésLa théorie de la relativité d'Einstein (Les grandes découvertes scientifiques)
By Alan Q Morton. 2006
Ce livre [...] examine d'abord la vie et l'époque [d'Einstein], ainsi que les lois de la physique qui précédèrent ses…
théories. Puis il explique la relativité et son rôle dans notre vie quotidienne, pour ensuite analyser les théories de la relativité spéciale et de la relativité générale. Il poursuit en décrivant la façon dont ces idées étonnantes ont ouvert la voie à une toute nouvelle interprétation des forces de l'univers, de la puissance que recèle le noyau d'un atome au comportement des corps célestes qui peuplent l'espace. -- 4e de couvA Briefer History of Time: The Science Classic Made More Accessible
By Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow. 2006
FROM ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT MINDS OF OUR TIME COMES A BOOK THAT CLARIFIES HIS MOST IMPORTANT IDEAS Stephen…
Hawking's worldwide bestseller A Brief History of Time remains a landmark volume in scientific writing. But for readers who have asked for a more accessible formulation of its key concepts-the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, and the history and future of the universe-A Briefer History of Time is Professor Hawking's response. Although "briefer," this book is much more than a mere explanation of Hawking's earlier work. A Briefer History of Time both clarifies and expands on the great subjects of the original, and records the latest developments in the field-from string theory to the search for a unified theory of all the forces of physics. Thirty-seven full-color illustrations enhance the text and make A Briefer History of Time an exhilarating and must-have addition in its own right to the great literature of science and ideas.