Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
eBook - 2016
The New York Times bestseller from the author of The Order of Time and Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander“One of the year’s most entrancing books about science.”—The Wall Street Journal“Clear, elegant...a whirlwind tour of some of the biggest ideas in physics.”—The New York Times Book Review This playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics briskly explains Einstein's general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world. Carlo Rovelli, a renowned theoretical physicist, is a delightfully poetic and philosophical scientific guide. He takes us to t...he frontiers of our knowledge: to the most minute reaches of the fabric of space, back to the origins of the cosmos, and into the...
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Penguin Publishing Group
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- English
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
| Adobe EPUB eBook | |
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| File Size | 1 GB |
| ISBN | 9780399184437 |
| Release Date | 3/1/2016 |
| Kindle Book | |
| ASIN | B00Z8VTMYG |
| Release Date | 3/1/2016 |
| OverDrive Read eBook | |
| File Size | 1 GB |
| ISBN | 9780399184437 |
| Release Date | 3/1/2016 |
