Joseph Conlon

Origins (eBook, ePUB)

The Cosmos in Verse

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A poetic odyssey through the origins of the universe from one of Britain's leading physicists. There raged a thumping cosmic ballyhoo, A manic dance a rumpus to arouse The universe: of Higgs and W, Electrons, gluons, muons, Zs and taus… For centuries poetry and science have been improbable, yet constant, bedfellows. Chaucer was an amateur astronomer; Milton broke bread with Galileo; and, before turning to the arts, Keats was a doctor. Meanwhile, scientific luminaries like Ada Lovelace and James Clerk Maxwell moonlighted as poets, composing verse between experiments and equations. Following in this tradition, theoretical physicist Joseph Conlon spins a dazzling intergalactic epic. Drawing on his scientific expertise, Conlon reveals the origins of our universe through two long-form poems 'Elements' and 'Galaxies'. Journeying from the Big Bang to the edges of our ever-expanding cosmos, Origins offers a delightful and revelatory adventure through contemporary physics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780861549122
• Artikelnr.: 69914477

Autorenporträt

Joseph Conlon is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford and a fellow of New College. His research spans particle physics, string theory, cosmology and astrophysics. He is the author of Why String Theory?, a Physics World Book of the Year in 2016, and has authored over seventy scientific papers.