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Spectacular Stories Of Scientific Discovery From The Higgs Particle To Black Holes

by Marcus Chown
language: english
Publisher: Faber & Faber, August of 2021 ‧
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The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power.'An excellent popular science book.'DARA Ó BRIAIN'A thoroughly informative and entertaining read.'ANNA BURNS, Booker Prize-winning author of Milkman'One of the best-written books about phsyics I have ever come across.'POPULAR SCIENCE'Highly entertaining and accessible.' IRISH TIMES'Fascinating, life enhancing entertainment.' PROSPECT'Thoroughly enjoyable . . . Chown has down it again.' BBC SKY AT NIGHTBreakthrough takes us on a breathtaking, mind-altering tour of the eureka! moments of modern physics. Charting the spellbinding stories of the scientists who predicted and discovered the existence of unknown planets, black holes, invisible force fields, ripples in the fabric of space-time, unsuspected subatomic particles and even antimatter, Marcus Chown reveals science's greatest mystery: its astonishing predictive power.***Breakthrough was previously published in 2020 in hardback under the title The Magicians.

Breakthrough

Spectacular Stories Of Scientific Discovery From The Higgs Particle To Black Holes

by Marcus Chown

Property Description
ISBN: 9780571374588
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date: August of 2021
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > Science > Other sciences
eBooks in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > History and Scientific Methodology
EAN: 9780571374588
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marcus Chown

Marcus Chown é um escritor e radialista premiado e consultor de cosmologia da New Scientist.
Ex-astrónomo do Instituto de Tecnologia da Califórnia em Pasadena, entre os seus livros encontra-se The Ascent of Gravity (considerado, para o jornal The Sunday Times, o livro de ciências do ano em 2017), What a Wonderful World, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You e We Need to Talk About Kelvin.
Pela Vogais editou, em 2020, O Infinito na Palma da Sua Mão.

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