Quantum Chance: Nonlocality, Teleportation and Other Quantum Marvels
From 'Bell's Theorem' to experiments in quantum entanglement, the reader will gain a solid understanding of one of the most fascinating areas of contemporary physics.
The essential features of quantum physics, largely debated since its discovery, are presented through the description (without mathematics) of recent experiments.
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
The story of two brilliant nineteenth-century scientists who discovered the electromagnetic field, laying the groundwork for the amazing technological and theoretical breakthroughs of the twentieth century.
The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell (1831- 1879) changed our perception of reality and laid the foundations for many of the scientific and technological advances of the twentieth century.
The world of the selfish gene revolves around savage competition, ruthless exploitation, and deceit, and yet, Dawkins argues, acts of apparent altruism do exist in nature.
Richard Dawkins demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence.
Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and “arrows of time,” of the big bang...
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
In the tradition of the legendary Richard Feynman lectures presented sixty years ago, this book is an inspiring, dazzling introduction to a way of seeing that will resonate.
Covers textual and linguistic matters, mathematical analyses of Euclid's ideas, commentators, refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations, and historical notes.