Overview
Short stories, anecdotes, clear explanations, and interesting photographs (but no equations), explain the mysteries of modern physics and cosmology.
Your ticket to an entertaining guided tour from Neanderthal man to dark energy, with stops at many places of interest along the way.
If you feel left out of the conversation at philosophers’ dinner parties, this book is definitely for you.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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What is Science All About?
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Open Questions
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Back Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Ross Barrett: Formerly a Research Fellow and Lecturer at four universities in Australia and Germany, and Senior Principal Research Scientist (now retired) at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation in Adelaide, his research interests range over experimental nuclear physics, theoretical nuclear physics, atomic physics, signal processing, and underwater acoustics. He has published over sixty research papers, and one book.
Pier Paolo Delsanto: Full Professor (now retired) and Director of Research in Condensed Matter Physics at the Politecnico of Torino, Italy, has spent half of his professional life in Universities and Research Centres abroad. His research fields range from Nuclear Physics, Acoustics and Ultrasonics to modelling and simulations in Materials Science, Biology and Oncology, with more than two hundred scientific articles and six books (two published by Springer).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Don't Be Afraid of Physics
Book Subtitle: Quantum Mechanics, Relativity and Cosmology for Everyone
Authors: Ross Barrett, Pier Paolo Delsanto
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63409-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63408-7Published: 24 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-63409-4Published: 23 December 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 293
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 48 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cosmology, Quantum Physics, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics