Physics

Die moderne Physik hat die Medizin umgekrempelt. Ärztinnen und Ärzte können heute ganz selbstverständlich in den lebendigen Menschen schauen – ohne den kleinsten Schnitt in die Haut. Verletzungen und Erkrankungen lassen sich damit so präzise erkennen wie nie zuvor. Und sogar Heilen kann die Physik! Wo eine Operation nicht ausreicht, können verschiedene Arten von Strahlung etwa Tumore bekämpfen.

Gabriella Greison racconta la bizzarra esistenza e le ancor più straordinarie intuizioni di uno dei padri della fisica quantistica, Paul Dirac, fisico premio Nobel 1933. Dirac è stato un fisico geniale e un uomo strambo e meticoloso, costantemente impegnato a elaborare formule, fra cui quella meraviglia grazie alla quale è entrato nella storia della scienza e che lo indica sulla lapide nell'Abbazia di Westminster a fianco di Isaac Newton: i? + ?? = m?.

Though extremely different men in most ways, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Third Reich Fuhrer Adolf Hitler shared a passion for science, technology, and (sometimes impractical) "wonder weapons." In some cases, this fixation paid off handsomely, as in the case of British centrimetric radar, a compact, powerful radar type that enabled fitment to individual aircraft and contributed to the defeat of German U-boats.

Originally published in 1926, The Russell Genero-Radiative Concept is a concise and provocative exposition of Walter Russell’s cyclic theory of continuous motion. In this rare work, Russell outlines a universe governed not by linear mechanics, but by rhythmic balance—where all matter, energy, and motion arise from the interplay of generative and radiative forces.

Reality is not what it seems. Not fixed. Not silent. Not separate from the one who observes it. Quantum experiments reveal seams in the world… places where information appears without traveling… where outcomes wait for attention… where time behaves like something far more flexible than a river. These seams form a doorway. A narrow line where darkness gives way to light… where the familiar dissolves into the possible… where a question becomes the beginning of understanding. This book does not claim answers. It offers a key. If you have ever sensed something beneath the surface… Step closer.

This Very Short Introduction traces the emergence of entropy and energy as distinct concepts, and explains how entropy spread from thermodynamics into statistical mechanics, probability theory and data science. It explains the implications of entropy for heat pumps, solar cells, carbon capture, and liquified natural gas.

What if everything you were taught about particles was wrong? Quantum Fields is a clean explanation of the most successful theory in modern physics, a model that replaced the idea of “matter” with behavior, vibration, and structure. This isn’t quantum mechanics the way it’s usually taught. It’s the deeper layer underneath it: a universe built from invisible fields, each one rippling, interacting, and giving rise to everything we call real. Physicists don’t talk about particles anymore. They talk about fields. Electron fields, photon fields, quark fields, and gluon fields.

Shoulders of Giants is a narrative history of how mathematics revealed the hidden forces shaping the modern world. From the geometry of ancient Greece to the emergence of electromagnetic theory, this audiobook follows the thinkers who transformed abstract symbols into practical tools — ideas that eventually carried signals, voices, and energy across continents. Along the way appear vivid portraits of mathematicians and physicists grappling with space, motion, light, and invisible fields, driven as much by obsession and rivalry as by curiosity.

Quasars are the brightest sustained phenomena in the known universe—engines of light powered by supermassive black holes devouring matter at the centers of distant galaxies. But they are more than cosmic spectacles. Every beam of quasar light that crosses the universe accumulates an extraordinarily detailed record of the gas, matter, and structure it passes through. The intergalactic medium writes its autobiography in the spectra of quasars, using absorption lines as words and sightlines as sentences.

Can you ever truly experience your own death? Quantum physics says no. Everyone dies. But what if, from your own perspective, death is impossible to experience? Reality doesn't follow one timeline. Every quantum event creates branching worlds where all outcomes happen. You exist in branches where you survived—but not in branches where you died.

This book explains why events in the world cannot always be understood as the result of separate things influencing one another locally. Starting from a well-established result in modern physics, it shows that some correlations observed in nature cannot be explained by assuming that each object carries its own independent properties and that all influence spreads step by step through space. The book examines the theorem that establishes this limit and the experiments that confirm it.

Measuring distances in the Universe is one of the most demanding intellectual achievements in the history of science. The objects studied by astronomy are separated from us by such vast expanses that no direct measurement is possible. Every number describing the scale of the cosmos must therefore be inferred indirectly, through light, motion, geometry, and carefully constructed physical models.

Below the waves, the ocean remains a largely undiscovered realm, with only 25% of its features mapped in detail. What we know about its depths, we've learned with the help of deep-sea robots. World-renowned robotics expert James Bellingham introduces listeners to this compelling world of contemporary undersea exploration and the vital role autonomous robots play in corporate and governmental aquaculture management, climate data, energy source locations, shipwreck explorations, and much more.

In an era dominated by digital technology, we have long assumed that our devices—smartphones, computers, and networks—operate on the solid ground of classical physics. Yet the truth is far more profound: modern microelectronics has always rested on quantum foundations. Boris Kriger reveals how quantum mechanics quietly shaped the transistor from its inception, how effects like tunneling, interference, and decoherence were not later intrusions but essential enablers of function.

J.E. Gordon strips engineering of its confusing technical terms, communicating its founding principles in accessible, witty prose.

What if the world you see isn't the world that truly exists? In what's really going on in the universe?, Brian Perez takes listeners on a bold exploration of consciousness, frequency, light, sound, and the unseen layers of reality that may surround us at all times. Blending metaphysics, modern physics, ancient wisdom and personal insight, the audiobook, examines questions of humanity has asked for centuries: is reality constructed? Is consciousness fundamental? Are we limited by our senses? And what might exist just beyond our perception?

¿Alguna Vez Has Sentido Una Profunda Curiosidad Por El Entramado Del Universo? ¿Te Has Maravillado Ante La Magnitud De Los Agujeros Negros O La Posibilidad De Viajar En El Tiempo? ¿Quisieras Entender Cómo La Relatividad Afecta Tu Vida Diaria Y Moldea Tu Percepción Del Tiempo Y El Espacio? Si Has Respondido Que Sí, Entonces Esta Guía Esencial Es Perfecta Para Ti, Pero Antes De Que Inicies De Inmediato Esta Mágica Y Fascinante Aventura, Déjame Explicarte Por Qué Esta Obra Transformará Tu Vida Casi De Forma Automática Y De Un Modo Que Cubra Todas Tus Necesidades, Casi Sin Darte Ni Cuenta.

The Ghost in the Telescope is an insider's account of the Herschel Space Observatory, which was launched to answer two of the biggest questions in astronomy: How were the stars and galaxies born? Written in an engaging manner for a general audience, this book tells the stories of the telescope itself, the discoveries it made, and the engineers and astronomers who built and used it.

Dopo aver contribuito notevolmente a rivoluzionare il mondo fisico che ci circonda, Federico Faggin ha deciso di andare oltre la materia, oltre il visibile e l'invisibile, e di indagare la fisica dell'ineffabile. Oltre l'invisibile è un libro dirompente, coraggioso, profondissimo eppure straordinariamente chiaro, che propone un nuovo sguardo sulle cose, una nuova affascinante teoria della realtà.

Nuclear energy stands at the crossroads of fear and necessity, science and public imagination, catastrophe and promise. This book offers a clear, penetrating examination of one of humanity’s most consequential technologies—its origins in cosmic processes, its role in the modern energy landscape, the accidents that shaped its reputation, and the profound ethical questions that surround its use. Rather than taking sides, it illuminates the hidden mechanisms, political pressures, psychological forces, and historical legacies that form the real structure of the nuclear debate.