Jim Al-Khalili

Paradox

The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

or the Grandfather Paradox - if you travelled back in time and killed your grandfather you would not have been born and would not therefore have killed your grandfather.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 214g
• ISBN-13: 9780552778060
• ISBN-10: 0552778060
• Artikelnr.: 36917972

Autorenporträt

Jim Al-Khalili OBE FRS is a quantum physicist, author and broadcaster based at the University of Surrey where he holds a joint chair in physics and the public engagement in science. He has written ten books, translated into over twenty languages. He is a regular presenter of TV science documentaries and also presents the long-running weekly BBC Radio 4 programme, The Life Scientific. A recipient of the Royal Society Michael Faraday medal, the Institute of Physics Kelvin Medal and the inaugural Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication, he is also the current president of the British Science Association. He received an OBE in 2007 for 'services to science' and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2018. Sunfall is his first novel. Jim Al-Khalili lives in Hampshire.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
1 The Game Show Paradox
2 Achilles and the Tortoise
3 Olbers’ Paradox
4 Maxwell’s Demon
5 The Pole in the Barn Paradox
6 The Paradox of the Twins
7 The Grandfather Paradox
8 The Paradox of Laplace’s Demon
9 The Paradox of Schrödinger’s Cat
10 Fermi’s Paradox
11 Remaining Questions
Acknowledgments
Index