A Challenge to the Whole Physics World
Title | A Challenge to the Whole Physics World PDF eBook |
Author | K.H.K. Geerasee Wijesuriya |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2016-04-21 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1365062481 |
The ideas in this book are innovative and a challenge to the existing whole Physics, Astronomy and Cosmology worlds. The main attempt of this book is to point out some special contradictory facts in Einstein's concepts and some contradictions to current fundamentals of Physics, those have the capability to carry a revolution to the Whole Physics World again. This book is so worthy for Physics Undergraduates, Graduates and scientists, as well as any other researcher and any other person who has an interest in innovative ideas. Geerasee studied at Faculty of Science, University of Colombo Sri Lanka. And she graduated with BSc (Hons) in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka in June 2014. Now she is intending to complete her PHD in Physics and Astronomy. Geerasee has been invited by several Astronomy/Physics institutions world-wide and by some private researchers asking to get involve with them to contribute to their researches.
A Challenge to the Whole Physics World
Title | A Challenge to the Whole Physics World PDF eBook |
Author | K.H.K. Geerasee Wijesuriya |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 157 |
Release | 2016-03-30 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 136500905X |
The ideas in this book are innovative and a challenge to the existing whole Physics, Astronomy and Cosmology worlds. The main attempt of this book is to point out some special contradictory facts in Einstein's concepts and some contradictions to current fundamentals of Physics, those have the capability to carry a revolution to the Whole Physics World again. Geerasee studied at Faculty of Science, University of Colombo Sri Lanka. And she graduated with BSc (Hons) in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka in June 2014. Now she is intending to complete her PHD in Physics and Astronomy. Geerasee has been invited by several Astronomy/Physics institutions and organizations world-wide, asking to get involve with them. Also, She has received several invitations from some private researchers around the world asking to get involve with them.
Through Two Doors at Once
Title | Through Two Doors at Once PDF eBook |
Author | Anil Ananthaswamy |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2018-08-07 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1101986115 |
One of Smithsonian's Favorite Books of 2018 One of Forbes's 2018 Best Books About Astronomy, Physics and Mathematics One of Kirkus's Best Books of 2018 The intellectual adventure story of the "double-slit" experiment, showing how a sunbeam split into two paths first challenged our understanding of light and then the nature of reality itself--and continues to almost 200 years later. Many of science's greatest minds have grappled with the simple yet elusive "double-slit" experiment. Thomas Young devised it in the early 1800s to show that light behaves like a wave, and in doing so opposed Isaac Newton. Nearly a century later, Albert Einstein showed that light comes in quanta, or particles, and the experiment became key to a fierce debate between Einstein and Niels Bohr over the nature of reality. Richard Feynman held that the double slit embodies the central mystery of the quantum world. Decade after decade, hypothesis after hypothesis, scientists have returned to this ingenious experiment to help them answer deeper and deeper questions about the fabric of the universe. How can a single particle behave both like a particle and a wave? Does a particle exist before we look at it, or does the very act of looking create reality? Are there hidden aspects to reality missing from the orthodox view of quantum physics? Is there a place where the quantum world ends and the familiar classical world of our daily lives begins, and if so, can we find it? And if there's no such place, then does the universe split into two each time a particle goes through the double slit? With his extraordinarily gifted eloquence, Anil Ananthaswamy travels around the world and through history, down to the smallest scales of physical reality we have yet fathomed. Through Two Doors at Once is the most fantastic voyage you can take.
The Order of Time
Title | The Order of Time PDF eBook |
Author | Carlo Rovelli |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2019-12-10 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0735216118 |
One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. For most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy, science and literature, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe. Already a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.
Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World
Title | Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Clegg |
Publisher | Icon Books |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2021-08-05 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1785787489 |
The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet. Physics informs our understanding of how the world works – but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to ten separate days in history to understand how particular breakthroughs were achieved, meet the individuals responsible and see how each breakthrough has influenced our lives. It is a unique selection. Focusing on practical impact means there is no room for Stephen Hawking's work on black holes, or the discovery of the Higgs boson. Instead we have the relatively little-known Rudolf Clausius (thermodynamics) and Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (superconductivity), while Albert Einstein is included not for his theories of relativity but for the short paper that gave us E=mc2 (nuclear fission). Later chapters feature transistors, LEDs and the Internet.
What Is Real?
Title | What Is Real? PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Becker |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 389 |
Release | 2018-03-20 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0465096069 |
"A thorough, illuminating exploration of the most consequential controversy raging in modern science." --New York Times Book Review An Editor's Choice, New York Times Book Review Longlisted for PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Longlisted for Goodreads Choice Award Every physicist agrees quantum mechanics is among humanity's finest scientific achievements. But ask what it means, and the result will be a brawl. For a century, most physicists have followed Niels Bohr's solipsistic and poorly reasoned Copenhagen interpretation. Indeed, questioning it has long meant professional ruin, yet some daring physicists, such as John Bell, David Bohm, and Hugh Everett, persisted in seeking the true meaning of quantum mechanics. What Is Real? is the gripping story of this battle of ideas and the courageous scientists who dared to stand up for truth. "An excellent, accessible account." --Wall Street Journal "Splendid. . . . Deeply detailed research, accompanied by charming anecdotes about the scientists." --Washington Post
Why Trust Science?
Title | Why Trust Science? PDF eBook |
Author | Naomi Oreskes |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2021-04-06 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0691212260 |
Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthy Are doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when so many of our political leaders don't? Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength—and the greatest reason we can trust it. Tracing the history and philosophy of science from the late nineteenth century to today, this timely and provocative book features a new preface by Oreskes and critical responses by climate experts Ottmar Edenhofer and Martin Kowarsch, political scientist Jon Krosnick, philosopher of science Marc Lange, and science historian Susan Lindee, as well as a foreword by political theorist Stephen Macedo.