Knocking On Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate our Universe

Knocking On Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate our Universe image
ISBN-10:

0099532085

ISBN-13:

9780099532088

Author(s): Randall. Lisa.
Released: Nov 22, 2012
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback, 464 pages
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Description:

Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2011.

We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the study of the largest), and when these breakthroughs come, they will revolutionise what we think we know about the universe, and the modern world.

Lisa Randall guides us through the latest ideas, charting the thrilling progress we have made in understanding the universe – from Galileo and Newton to Einstein and the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson. Yet it's about more than just physics - Randall explains how we decide what questions to ask; how risk, beauty, creativity and truth play a role in scientific thinking; and how answering the big questions will ultimately tell us who we are and where we came from.

























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