Breakthrough (eBook)

Marcus Chown (Autor)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
288 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-37458-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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 NIGHT Breakthrough 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.

Marcus Chown is an award-winning science writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is now cosmology consultant for the New Scientist. His acclaimed books include What a Wonderful World, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, We Need to Talk about Kelvin and The Ascent of Gravity(Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2017). He is also the author of Solar System for iPad, which won The Bookseller 2011 Digital Innovation of the Year. www.marcuschown.com @marcuschown

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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 O 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.8.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Brian Greene, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, The Fabric of the Cosmos, Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman • Cosmos, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Behind the Curve, Hawking, Particle Fever, Gravity and Me, Fun to Imagine, The Amazing Science of Empty Space • Jim Al-Khalili, The World According to Physics, Life on the Edge, Quantum, Brian Cox, Wonders of the Universe, The Planets, Forces of Nature, Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland, The Order of Time, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics • Popular Science, Science History, History of Science, Physics, Quantum Physics, Mathematics, Scientific Prediction, Science • Radiolab, Ologies, The Naked Scientists, 60-Second Science, StarTalk, Invisbilia, The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, BBC Earth, Houston We Have a Podcast, The Life Scientific, Nature • Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, Richard Feynman, black holes, subatomic particles, antimatter, invisible forcefields, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Niels Bohr, Higgs' Boson • The Magicians, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, We Need to Talk About Kelvin, The Magic Furnace, Afterglow of Creation, The Ascent of Gravity, What a Wonderful World, The Never-Ending Days of Being, Tweeting the Universe, Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand, Marcus Chown
• ISBN-10: 0-571-37458-1 / 0571374581
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-37458-8 / 9780571374588