Dan Hooper
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Essential reading - New Scientist
An enthusiastic, mostly comprehensible account of a popular theory many scientists believe will unite two of the few remaining separate elements in the universe: matter and energy...Hooper does a fine job explaining historical physics and newer concepts - Kirkus Reviews
"As the world's most powerful particle accelerator revs up, Dan Hooper's book is essential reading." - New Scientist
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
These twelve half-hour lectures are about what Einstein got wrong. He may have kindled a scientific revolution with his famous theory of relativity and his proof that atoms and light quanta exist, but he balked at accepting the most startling implications of these theories-such as the existence of black holes, the big bang, gravity waves, and mind-bendingly strange phenomena in the quantum realm. In a course that assumes no background in science and...