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The world according to physics / Jim Al-Khalili.

By: Al-Khalili, Jim, 1962- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]Description: 1 online resource (xv, 313 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780691201672; 0691201676.Subject(s): Physics -- Popular works | Physique -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation | SCIENCE -- Physics -- General | PhysicsGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books. | Popular works.Additional physical formats: Print version:: World according to physics.DDC classification: 530 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
The awe of understanding -- Scale -- Space and time -- Energy and matter -- The quantum world -- Thermodynamics and the arrow of time -- Unification -- The future of physics -- The usefulness of physics -- Thinking like a physicist.
Summary: "This book frames the nature and importance of modern physics in an accessible, compelling, succinct way, showing lay readers that physics is crucial to our modern understanding of the world--and indeed the world as we currently know and experience it. Through the narrative, the book naturally describes essential facets of what physics is and why it has become such a (some might say, the) fundamental science. In addition, the reader will gain a sense of the grand scope and sweep of science and the collective, self-correcting nature of how science is done. For some, the book may serve as an invitation to physics. To others, it may serve to clarify the role of physics and describe a shared, global, centuries-long quest for fundamental knowledge"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book frames the nature and importance of modern physics in an accessible, compelling, succinct way, showing lay readers that physics is crucial to our modern understanding of the world--and indeed the world as we currently know and experience it. Through the narrative, the book naturally describes essential facets of what physics is and why it has become such a (some might say, the) fundamental science. In addition, the reader will gain a sense of the grand scope and sweep of science and the collective, self-correcting nature of how science is done. For some, the book may serve as an invitation to physics. To others, it may serve to clarify the role of physics and describe a shared, global, centuries-long quest for fundamental knowledge"-- Provided by publisher.

The awe of understanding -- Scale -- Space and time -- Energy and matter -- The quantum world -- Thermodynamics and the arrow of time -- Unification -- The future of physics -- The usefulness of physics -- Thinking like a physicist.

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