The Trouble With Gravity

Author : Richard Panek
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 0544526740
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trouble with Gravity written by Richard Panek and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2019 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning science writer traces our millennia-long effort to understand the phenomenon of gravity--the greatest mystery in physics, and a force that has shaped our universe and our minds in ways we have never fully understood until now.

Author : Lee Smolin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618551057
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trouble with Physics written by Lee Smolin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

Author : Amber Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1665949570
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Something Like Gravity written by Amber Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After coming out as transgender, Chris is still processing a frightening assault he survived the year before, while Maia, grieving the loss of her older sister, is trying to find her place in the world, which makes falling in love the furthest thing on their minds--until it is not.

Author : Lee Smolin
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0345809122
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Einstein's Unfinished Revolution written by Lee Smolin and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daring new vision of the quantum universe, and the scandals controversies, and questions that may illuminate our future--from Canada's leading mind on contemporary physics. Quantum physics is the golden child of modern science. It is the basis of our understanding of atoms, radiation, and so much else, from elementary particles and basic forces to the behaviour of materials. But for a century it has also been the problem child of science, plagued by intense disagreements between its intellectual giants, from Albert Einstein to Stephen Hawking, over the strange paradoxes and implications that seem like the stuff of fantasy. Whether it's Schrödinger's cat--a creature that is simultaneously dead and alive--or a belief that the world does not exist independently of our observations of it, quantum theory is what challenges our fundamental assumptions about our reality. In Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, globally renowned theoretical physicist Lee Smolin provocatively argues that the problems which have bedeviled quantum physics since its inception are unsolved for the simple reason that the theory is incomplete. There is more, waiting to be discovered. Our task--if we are to have simple answers to our simple questions about the universe we live in--must be to go beyond it to a description of the world on an atomic scale that makes sense. In this vibrant and accessible book, Smolin takes us on a journey through the basics of quantum physics, introducing the stories of the experiments and figures that have transformed the field, before wrestling with the puzzles and conundrums that they present. Along the way, he illuminates the existing theories about the quantum world that might solve these problems, guiding us toward his own vision that embraces common sense realism. If we are to have any hope of completing the revolution that Einstein began nearly a century ago, we must go beyond quantum mechanics as we know it to find a theory that will give us a complete description of nature. In Einstein's Unfinished Revolution, Lee Smolin brings us a step closer to resolving one of the greatest scientific controversies of our age.

Author : Meg Leder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534403183
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letting Go of Gravity written by Meg Leder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[An] absorbing novel that will appeal to fans of Rainbow Rowell.” —Booklist “A poignant and carefully crafted story.” —School Library Journal “A gorgeous, sad, funny, and wise book about letting go and finding your place in the world.” —Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces Parker struggles to reconnect with her twin brother, Charlie—who’s recovering from cancer—as she tries to deal with her anxiety about the future in this powerful new novel. Twins Parker and Charlie are polar opposites. Where Charlie is fearless, Parker is careful. Charlie is confident while Parker aims to please. Charlie is outgoing and outspoken; Parker is introverted and reserved. And of course, there’s the one other major difference: Charlie got cancer. Parker didn’t. But now that Charlie is officially in remission, life couldn’t be going better for Parker. She’s landed a prestigious summer internship at the hospital and is headed to Harvard in the fall to study pediatric oncology—which is why the anxiety she’s felt since her Harvard acceptance is so unsettling. And it doesn’t help that her relationship with Charlie has been on the rocks since his diagnosis. Enter Finn, a boy who’s been leaving strange graffiti messages all over town. Parker can’t stop thinking about those messages, or about Finn, who makes her feel free for the first time: free to doubt, free to make mistakes, and free to confront the truth that Parker has been hiding from for a long time. That she keeps trying to save Charlie, when the person who really needs saving is herself.

Author : Lee Smolin
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465013244
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Roads To Quantum Gravity written by Lee Smolin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It would be hard to imagine a better guide to this difficult subject." -- Scientific American In Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin provides an accessible overview of the attempts to build a final "theory of everything." He explains in simple terms what scientists are talking about when they say the world is made from exotic entities such as loops, strings, and black holes and tells the fascinating stories behind these discoveries: the rivalries, epiphanies, and intrigues he witnessed firsthand. "Provocative, original, and unsettling." -- The New York Review of Books "An excellent writer, a creative thinker." -- Nature

Author : Justina Robson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575089113
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down to the Bone written by Justina Robson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lila Black faces her greatest challange yet as she takes herself, her dead lover and the AI in her head into death's realm. The Quantum Gravity series, set in a world where our reality mixes with other dimensions that are the homes to Faeries, elementals and demons, is unique in modern SF - a series that is willing to incorporate legend, myth and magic while maintaining a rigorous approach to scientific and pyschological reality. And in Lila Black Justina Robson has created an enduringly strong yet quirkily human and flawed heroine.

Author : Richard Hamilton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 158234714X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cal and the Amazing Anti-Gravity Machine written by Richard Hamilton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his talking dog, Frankie, as a constant companion, ten-year-old Cal Barraclough investigates his wacky neighbor's unusual experiments.

Author : Daniele Oriti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521860458
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Quantum Gravity written by Daniele Oriti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing contributions from leading researchers in this field, this book provides a complete overview of this field from the frontiers of theoretical physics research for graduate students and researchers. It introduces the most current approaches to this problem, and reviews their main achievements.

Author : Lisa Randall
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061981230
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warped Passages written by Lisa Randall and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universe has many secrets. It may hide additional dimensions of space other than the familier three we recognize. There might even be another universe adjacent to ours, invisible and unattainable . . . for now. Warped Passages is a brilliantly readable and altogether exhilarating journey that tracks the arc of discovery from early twentieth-century physics to the razor's edge of modern scientific theory. One of the world's leading theoretical physicists, Lisa Randall provides astonishing scientific possibilities that, until recently, were restricted to the realm of science fiction. Unraveling the twisted threads of the most current debates on relativity, quantum mechanics, and gravity, she explores some of the most fundamental questions posed by Nature—taking us into the warped, hidden dimensions underpinning the universe we live in, demystifying the science of the myriad worlds that may exist just beyond our own.