Charles Flowers

Instability Rules (eBook, ePUB)

The Ten Most Amazing Ideas of Modern Science

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

World-altering discoveries that reveal a universe of uncertainty and constant change
Whether probing the farthest reaches of the vast universe or exploring the microscopic world of genetics and the subatomic world of quantum mechanics, Instability Rules is a remarkably informative and engaging look at ten milestone discoveries and their discoverers-a wide range of very human personalities whose insights have dramatically altered our most basic assumptions about human existence during the last century. The stories include Edwin Hubble and the expanding universe, Alfred Wegener and continental drift, Neils Bohr and quantum mechanics, Alan Turing and artificial intelligence, and James Watson and Francis Crick and DNA. Also covering discoveries of the twenty-first century that are already refining these and other ideas, Instability Rules is an exhilarating, sometimes amusing encounter with the defining scientific discoveries of our age.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470312544
• Artikelnr.: 49987373

Autorenporträt

CHARLES FLOWERS is an award-winning author or coauthor of fifty-eight books, most recently Mapping the Stars, The Big Bang (with David Appel), and A Science Odyssey: 100 Years of Discovery, the companion book to the PBS series.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: "It Moves . . . " 1 Hubble and the Expanding Universe. 2 Einstein and the Wonder of Light. 3 Bohr and the Puzzles of the Quantum World. 4 Wegener and the Dance of the Continents. 5 Big Bang
Big Crunch
and Big Bore. 6 Fermat
Godel
and Fuzzy Math. 7 Mendel
Watson
Crick
and the Human Genome. 8 Hominids
Humans
and the Search for Origins. 9 Turing and the Brain as Computer
and Vice Versa. 10 Freud
the Unconscious
and Other Views. Acknowledgments. Photo Credits. Index.