📗 Libro en inglés EXPLAINING THE UNIVERSE: THE NEW AGE OF PHYSICS

Why is the universe flat? Why can’t we forecast weather better? Can Schrödinger’s cat really be simultaneously dead and alive? Why does fractal geometry keep showing up in strange places? Might spacetime have eleven dimensions? What does quantum mechanics mean about the nature of our world? In this book’s pages, the nonphysicist will accept as commonsensical Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, and physicists can meet across specialties. Students can access physics’ critical concepts, and poets can learn a new language to describe the universe’s many wonders. Taking us from the ultra-violet catastrophe that undid the Newtonian world to tomorrow’s Theory of Everything, Charap brings today’s most fascinating science down to Earth, where we can all enjoy it. John M Charap, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.