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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The whole goal of physics is to explain what we observe. For centuries, physicists believed that observations yielded faithful representations of what is out there. But when they began to study the subatomic realm, they found that observation often interferes with what is being observed―that the act of seeing changes what we see. The same is true of cosmology: our view of the universe is inevitably distorted by observation bias. And so whether...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 722
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Solid, liquid, and gas are not the only states of matter. Others include liquid crystal, magnet, glass, and superconductor. New states are continually, and unexpectedly, being discovered. Condensed matter physics seeks to understand how states of matter and their distinct physical properties emerge from the atoms that compose a material"--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At this very moment, we are moving through space at 130 miles per second, and yet we don't notice at all. Nothing slips and falls off the kitchen table as the Earth spins, and our bodies aren't catapulted against random buildings and trees by the planet orbiting the Sun. We, and everything around us, move at the same rate, so we simply don't notice the force that propels us through space. Nor do we notice the strangest fact of all, that we and everything...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A century ago, a brilliant circle of physicists around Niels Bohr argued that the search for an objective, realistic, and mechanical picture of the inner workings of the atom―the kind of picture that had previously been an ideal of classical physics―was doomed to fail. Today, there is widespread agreement among philosophers and physicists that those arguments were wrong. However, the question of what that picture might look like, and how it might...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"It only takes a small spark to ignite a child's mind! Written by an expert, Quantum Information for Babies is a colorfully simple introduction to the newest ideas in physics. Babies (and grownups!) will learn all about qubits (quantum bits) and why they are so different from, and more useful than, the regular bits of information stored on our computers today. With a tongue-in-cheek approach that adults will love, this installment in the Baby University...
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