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Fundamental: How quantum and particle physics explain absolutely everything (except gravity)
Tim James
History, Popular science, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field
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- Trade Paperback Aug 6, 2019 | 9781472143488 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
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- Trade Paperback Aug 6, 2019 | 9781472143488 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
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- Trade Paperback Aug 6, 2019 | 9781472143488 | RRP $34.99 Buy Now
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- e-Book Aug 1, 2019 | 9781472143471 | RRP $14.99 Buy Now
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In the same way that Tim's first book ELEMENTAL, a Daily Mail Book of the Year in 2018, serves as a beginner's guide to Chemistry, FUNDAMENTAL provides a very entertaining beginner's guide to quantum and particle physics.
FUNDAMENTAL does for physics what Tim's first book, ELEMENTAL, does for chemistry: it demystifies the topic in his trademark humorous, engaging style, including the most recent developments in the field.
At the start of the twentieth century, science appeared complete and the laws of nature were almost all discovered, but then we woke a sleeping giant - we discovered quantum mechanics.
In the quantum realm, objects can be in two places at once. It's a place where time travel is not only possible, but necessary. It's a place where cause and effect can happen in reverse and observing something changes its state. From parallel universes to antimatter, quantum mechanics has revealed that when you get right down to it, the laws of nature are insane. The scientist J. B. S. Haldane once said, 'Reality is not only stranger than we imagine . . . it's stranger than we can imagine.' Never is this more true than with quantum mechanics; our best, most recent attempt to make sense of the fundamental laws of nature.
FUNDAMENTAL is a comprehensive beginner's guide to quantum mechanics, explaining not only the weirdness of the subject but the experiments that proved it to be true. Using a humorous and light-hearted approach, FUNDAMENTAL tells the story of how the most brilliant minds in science grappled with seemingly impossible ideas and gave us everything from microchips to particle accelerators. FUNDAMENTAL gives clear explanations of all the quantum phenomena known to modern science, without requiring an understanding of complex mathematics; tells the eccentric stories of the scientists who made these shattering discoveries and what they used them for; explains how quantum field theory (a topic not covered in detail by any other popular-science book) gave rise to particle physics and why the Higgs boson isn't the end of the story.
Praise for Fundamental: How quantum and particle physics explain absolutely everything (except gravity)
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A hugely entertaining tour of the periodic table and the 118 elements that are the basic building blocks of everything. - Daily Mail
Tim James
Tim James is the child of Welsh/English and Jamaican parents. He was raised in Nigeria, educated in England and lives in America where he is frequently mistaken for an Australian. He taught chemistry and physics for eleven years and now works full-time as an author and screenwriter. Sometimes he has a beard.
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