World-altering discoveries that reveal a universe of uncertainty and constant change
Whether probing the farthest reaches of the vast universe or exploring the microscopic world of genetics and the subatomic world of quantum mechanics, Instability Rules is a remarkably informative and engaging look at ten milestone discoveries and their discoverers-a wide range of very human personalities whose insights have dramatically altered our most basic assumptions about human existence during the last century. The stories include Edwin Hubble and the expanding universe, Alfred Wegener and continental drift, Neils Bohr and quantum mechanics, Alan Turing and artificial intelligence, and James Watson and Francis Crick and DNA. Also covering discoveries of the twenty-first century that are already refining these and other ideas, Instability Rules is an exhilarating, sometimes amusing encounter with the defining scientific discoveries of our age.
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Whether probing the farthest reaches of the vast universe or exploring the microscopic world of genetics and the subatomic world of quantum mechanics, Instability Rules is a remarkably informative and engaging look at ten milestone discoveries and their discoverers-a wide range of very human personalities whose insights have dramatically altered our most basic assumptions about human existence during the last century. The stories include Edwin Hubble and the expanding universe, Alfred Wegener and continental drift, Neils Bohr and quantum mechanics, Alan Turing and artificial intelligence, and James Watson and Francis Crick and DNA. Also covering discoveries of the twenty-first century that are already refining these and other ideas, Instability Rules is an exhilarating, sometimes amusing encounter with the defining scientific discoveries of our age.
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CHARLES FLOWERS is an award-winning author or coauthor of fifty-eight books, most recently Mapping the Stars, The Big Bang (with David Appel), and A Science Odyssey: 100 Years of Discovery, the companion book to the PBS series.
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Preface: "It Moves . . . "
1 Hubble and the Expanding Universe.
2 Einstein and the Wonder of Light.
3 Bohr and the Puzzles of the Quantum World.
4 Wegener and the Dance of the Continents.
5 Big Bang, Big Crunch, and Big Bore.
6 Fermat, Godel, and Fuzzy Math.
7 Mendel, Watson, Crick, and the Human Genome.
8 Hominids, Humans, and the Search for Origins.
9 Turing and the Brain as Computer, and Vice Versa.
10 Freud, the Unconscious, and Other Views.
Acknowledgments.
Photo Credits.
Index.
Titel
Instability Rules
Untertitel
The Ten Most Amazing Ideas of Modern Science
Autor
EAN
9780470312544
ISBN
978-0-470-31254-4
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
21.04.2008
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.54 MB
Anzahl Seiten
228
Jahr
2008
Untertitel
Englisch
Auflage
1. Auflage
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