What Makes Nature Tick? by Roger G Newton
This account of how physicists understand the world, explores both the mysteries of the universe, and the beauty of the science that gives shape to the unseeable. The author discusses solitons and superconductors, quarks and strings, phase space, tachyons, time, chaos, and indeterminacy, as well as the investigations that have led to their elucidation. However, he does not limit this volume to recent discoveries and startling facts. He strives to presents physics as an intellectual structure, a network of ideas that stretches back 300 years. Where does our unidirectional sense of time come from? How are forces transmitted through empty space? What is an elementary particle? In addition to providing answers to these questions, and many others, Newton demonstrates how physicists formulate the questions - a process upon which intuition, imagination, and aesthetics have a surprisingly powerful influence.
Newton, Roger G.: - Roger G. Newton is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics at Indiana University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674950856 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674950852 |
| Title | What Makes Nature Tick? |
| Author | Roger G Newton |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1993-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 270 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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