Perfect Symmetry: The Search for the Beginning of Time - Brossura

Pagels, Heinz R.

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ISBN 10: 1439148880 ISBN 13: 9781439148884

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2009

Riassunto

Popular science at its best, this acclaimed classic work describes in stunning detail how cutting-edge discoveries in quantum physics and cosmology are helping to explain the origin and evolution of the universe, of space and time. Perfect Symmetry is an optimistic report about the ongoing synthesis of these two disciplines into a concerted effort to uncover the fundamental laws that not only describe how the stuff that makes up the universe -- matter and energy -- came into existence but also govern the behavior of the smallest and largest things, from subatomic particles to stars, galaxies, and the universe itself. Written by that rarest of scientists -- one who is esteemed by his peers yet capable of making the most complex ideas comprehensible to laymen -- Perfect Symmetry is an enthralling intellectual adventure, science that reads like art.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Heinz Pagels was the executive director of the New York Academy of Sciences and adjunct professor at Rockefeller University. The author of several other acclaimed books, including The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature and The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity, he died in 1988.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1439148880
• ISBN 13: 9781439148884
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 400
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile