Robert Gilmore
Springer New York
2003e druk, 2003
9780387955667
Once Upon a Universe
Not-so-Grimm tales of cosmology
Specificaties
Gebonden, 225 blz.
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Engels
Springer New York |
2003e druk, 2003
ISBN13: 9780387955667
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
First Snow White encounters one of the Little People, then one of the Even Smaller People, and finally one of the Truly Infinitesimal People. And no matter how diligently she searches, the only dwarves she can find are collapsed stars! Clearly, she's not at home in her well-known Brothers Grimm fairy tale, but instead in a strange new landscape that features quantum behavior, the wavelike properties of particles, and the Uncertainty Principle. She (and we) must have entered, in short, one of the worlds created by Robert Gilmore, physicist and fabulist.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780387955667
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:225
Uitgever:Springer New York
Druk:2003
Inhoudsopgave
The First Tale: The PRINCE and p (A quest for the nature of motion).- The Second Tale: SNOW WHITE and the particularly little PEOPLE (Into the deep basement of our world).- The Third Tale: ALI GORI and the CAVE of NIGHT (consider the heavens).- The Fourth Tale: JACK and the STARSTALK (spacetime and gravity).- The Fifth Tale: WARING beauty (the big bang and after).- The Sixth Tale: CINDERENDA and the DEATH of STARS (the life and fate of stars).- Epilogue.- Further Reading.