John C. Taylor, Taylor John C.

Hidden Unity in Nature's Laws

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

One of the paradoxes of the physical sciences is that as knowledge has progressed, more and more diverse physical phenomena can be explained in terms of fewer underlying laws, or principles. In "Hidden Unity, " eminent physicist Taylor puts many of these findings into historical perspective and documents how progress is made when unexpected, hidden unities are uncovered between apparently unrelated physical phenomena.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 508
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 817g
• ISBN-13: 9780521659383
• ISBN-10: 0521659388
• Artikelnr.: 21588538

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Motion on earth and in the heavens
2. Energy, heat, and chance
3. Electricity and magnetism
4. Light
5. Space and time
6. Least action
7. Gravitation and curved spacetime
8. The quantum revolution
9. Quantum theory with special relativity
10. Order breaks symmetry
11. Quarks and what hold them together
12. Unifying weak forces with QED
13. Gravitation plus quantum theory - stars and black holes
14. Particles, symmetries and the universe
15. Queries
16. Appendices
Glossary
Bibliography.