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"From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of groundbreaking science In In a Flight of Starlings, already a #1 bestseller in his native Italy, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work: investigating the principles of physics by observing the flight of flocks of birds. Studying the movements of these communities, he has realized, proves an illuminating...
2) Negative Mass and Negative Refractive Index in Atom Nuclei - Nuclear Wave Equation - Gravitational a
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Some efforts have been made to prove negative mass behavior through some experiments performed in mechanics, and other disciplines as well as some theories in electrostatics, but I haven't found research about similar effects at the atomic level, where the most elementary mass given by the atomic nucleus is to be found.Is the second Newton's law still valid with negative mass?What could happen if we make the atom behave in a negative mass regime?Is...
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"Before you finish reading this sentence, trillions upon trillions of neutrinos will have passed through your body. Not sure what a neutrino is? Get an up-close-and-personal introduction in this dazzling picture book from MIT Kids Press, told in lilting rhyme from the neutrino's point of view and filled with illustrations that swirl and splash the cosmos to life. Some of the smallest bits of matter known to exist -- and they exist everywhere -- neutrinos...
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Roland Omnès is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Paris-Sud. His books include Understanding Quantum Mechanics and The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (both Princeton), L'Univers et ses Metamorphoses, and Introduction to Particle Physics.
In this magisterial work, Roland Omnès takes us from the academies of ancient Greece to the laboratories of modern science as he seeks to do no less than rebuild the foundations of the philosophy...
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"Co-Winner of the 2000 Outstanding Book Prize, Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences" Max Jammer is Professor of Physics Emeritus and former Rector at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. He is the author of a number of treatises on the foundations of physics, including Concepts of Space, which contains a preface by Albert Einstein, and The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, which was read in draft by Paul Dirac and Werner Heisenberg. For his publications,...
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This book deals concisely with all the theories of contemporary physics, from relativity (restricted and general) to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, via nuclear and particle physics. In addition, the rudiments of plasma physics, solid state physics, semiconductor physics, and group theory are exposed.The approach of this textbook is to deal directly with the mathematical formalism and to present the main equations of each theory, explaining...
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Los descubrimientos de Niels Bohr en el campo de la teoría cuántica llevaron a avances monumentales en la física y en nuestra comprensión de la estructura atómica. Bohr ganó el premio Nobel por su labor en 1922 y sus ideas, aún hoy, siguen impulsando a la física hacia nuevos descubrimientos.
¿Pero qué es la teoría cuántica? La mayoría de nosotros no entendemos ni los conceptos más básicos aunque en ella reside la clave para comprender...
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In this book, the great history of physics discoveries is traced, starting from the scientific revolution of Galileo and Newton to the physics of today and the near future.The understanding of physics is approached both from a theoretical point of view, expounding the definitions of each particular field and the assumptions underlying each theory, and on a practical level, going on to solve more than 350 exercises related to physics problems of all...
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Ce fut l'événement de l'année 2013 : François Englert obtenait le prix Nobel de physique pour la découverte du boson. Le premier Belge à être honoré par ce prix depuis Ilya Prigogine en 1977. Françoise Baré, journaliste à la RTBF, et Guy Duplat, ingénieur civil physicien, ex-rédacteur en chef du Soir, auteur de Une vague belge (Racine) et journaliste à La Libre Belgique, ont rencontré plusieurs fois, longuement, François Englert, avant...
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In this book, we analyze, from a self-taught perspective, the question, "Will there be a fundamental theory of the laws that govern the world we live in?" Shrouded in extreme abstraction embodied in self-described gobbledygook, accessible only to a trained practitioner, modern physics can seem like a capricious subject. Nevertheless, with perseverance, at least a rudimentary understanding of modern physics is available to the uninitiated spectator....
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This book presents the Eigen Theory of the physical world which consists of three stages. First stage formulates a pair of eigen velocity vectors, which produces the wave aspect of the wave-particle duality of matter. These vectors are functions of a pair of symmetric and antisymmetric tensors which are characteristic of gravitation and electromagnetism respectively. The second stage transforms the wave aspect of matter to the particle aspect which...
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Get the Summary of Craig Nelson's The Age of Radiance in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Age of Radiance" by Craig Nelson provides a comprehensive history of the nuclear age, detailing the discovery of radioactivity and its profound impact on the world. The book traces the origins of nuclear science with pioneers like Marie and Pierre Curie, who uncovered the mysteries of radium and polonium, and Wilhelm Röntgen's...
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This textbook describes, with the necessary mathematical formalism, all cognitive areas related to modern physics, starting from the formulation of the scientific method to the crisis of classical physics in the second half of the nineteenth century.These areas range from mechanics to fluid dynamics, thermodynamics to optics, oscillatory phenomena to electromagnetism, and are interconnected by the cognitive matrix of experimental physics and the evolution...
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Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you about the most shocking discovery in the history of science: that at its deepest level the world is orchestrated by chance; that ultimately, things happen for no reason at all. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger shows you that somewhere out in space there is a furnace at a temperature of 4.5 billion degrees. Static on your TV screen proclaims that the universe had a beginning....
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From the Ishango Bone of central Africa and the Inca quipu of South America to the dawn of modern mathematics, The Crest of the Peacock makes it clear that human beings everywhere have been capable of advanced and innovative mathematical thinking. George Gheverghese Joseph takes us on a breathtaking multicultural tour of the roots and shoots of non-European mathematics. He shows us the deep influence that the Egyptians and Babylonians had on the Greeks,...
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Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics--imagine where we'd be today if Einstein and Newton didn't have the math to back up their ideas. But how many people realize that physics can be used to produce many astonishing and strikingly elegant solutions in mathematics? Mark Levi shows how in this delightful book, treating readers to a host of entertaining problems and mind-bending puzzlers that will amuse and inspire their inner...
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In the bestselling The Physics of Star Trek, the renowned theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss took readers on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the Star Trek universe to see how it stacked up against the real universe. Now, responding to requests for more as well as to a number of recent exciting discoveries in physics and astronomy, Krauss takes a provocative look at how the laws of physics relate to notions from our popular culture -- not...
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"Co-Winner of the 2015 AIP Science Writing Award for Books, American Institute of Physics" "One of Physics World's Top Ten Books of the Year for 2014" "One of The Guardian's Best Popular Physical Science Books of 2014, chosen by GrrlScientist" Charles L. Adler is professor of physics at St. Mary's College of Maryland.
Explaining the science behind science fiction and fantasy-from the probable to the impossible
From teleportation and space elevators...
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Who are the extraordinary individuals that will take us on the next great space race, the next great human endeavor, our exploration and colonization of the planet Mars? And more importantly, how are they doing it? Acclaimed science writer Oliver Morton explores the peculiar and fascinating world of the new generation of explorers: geologists, scientists, astrophysicists and dreamers. Morton shows us the complex and beguiling role that mapping...
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Joshua S. Bloom is associate professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley.
A brief, cutting-edge introduction to the brightest cosmic phenomena known to science
Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest-and, until recently, among the least understood-cosmic events in the universe. Discovered by chance during the cold war, these evanescent high-energy explosions confounded astronomers for decades. But a rapid series of startling breakthroughs...
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