Engineering Physics

Con questo audiolibro breve, ma profondo e documentato, Jim Al-Khalili - fisico, divulgatore e autore di veri bestseller - espone l'intera concezione del mondo secondo la fisica attuale. Per farlo, parte dalle basi, dalle fondamenta stesse della trama di cui è fatta la realtà, chiarendo nel dettaglio, per iniziare, i concetti di spazio, tempo, energia e materia. Preparato così il palcoscenico del mondo, alzato il sipario sul racconto, l'autore espone i tre pilastri su cui poggia la fisica moderna: la relatività, la meccanica quantistica e la termodinamica.

How to Keep Dinosaurs is a best-selling guide, packed with the sort of information keen dinosaur keepers crave - from feeding and housing to curing common ailments, breeding and showing your animal. The author, a zoologist with extensive experience of dinosaurs, has provided a timely and much-needed source book for all those who keep dinosaurs and for the huge numbers who are contemplating getting one. It is as essential to every dinosaur keeper as a stout shovel and a tranquilliser rifle.

In this Very Short Introduction, John Heilbron draws on sources never before presented in English to cover the life and work of one of the most creative physicists of the 20th century. In addition to his role as a scientist, Heilbron considers Bohr as a statesman and Danish cultural icon, who built scientific institutions and pushed for the extension of international cooperation in science to all nation states. As a humanist he was concerned with the cultivation of all sides of the individual, and with the complementary contributions of all peoples to the sum of human culture.

A fun, nontechnical, and wonderfully engaging guide to that most powerful and mysterious of mathematical concepts: infinity. In this book, best-selling author and mathematician Haim Shapira presents an introduction to mathematical theories which deal with the most beautiful concept ever invented by humankind: infinity.

Fin dagli esordi dell'umanità la volta stellata è sempre stata la culla di dèi e cosmogonie, racconti per esorcizzare il mistero della vita e della morte. Nel contempo, in ogni civiltà, alla visione religiosa del mondo si sono contrapposte menti curiose che hanno cercato spiegazioni razionali dei fenomeni naturali e celesti.

Può distruggere o curare, essere usato per diagnosi mediche o come chiave di accesso per esplorare l'infinitamente piccolo. Dannazione o salvezza per l'umanità? L'atomo è il mattone fondamentale della materia, il suo nucleo alimenta il Sole e potrebbe garantirci per sempre energia sicura e pulita. Questo audiolibro ce lo illustra a tutto campo, dai nanomateriali alla medicina, alle comunicazioni, affacciandosi sul futuro dove il teletrasporto, i computer quantistici, i mantelli dell'invisibilità lo renderanno ancora più protagonista.

Negli ultimi anni il modo di fare scienza è radicalmente cambiato. Le riflessioni e le esperienze personali di un protagonista ci aiutano a capire i meccanismi della ricerca scientifica contemporanea. Un sistema in cui passione e rigore faticano a trovare spazio, schiacciati come sono da dure leggi di mercato. Da vocazione di pochi, fare ricerca è diventato un mestiere di molti, forse di troppi. Con conseguenze e rischi, come l'aumento di frodi, plagi, ma soprattutto con una produzione scientifica abnorme e spesso di scarso rilievo.

Most nerve cells in the outermost layers of the brain end blindly, without any continuing nerve connections. Baumann investigates the possibilities underlying this peculiar medical observation and suggests that these neurons are the very beacons of our human awareness and consciousness.

Join the author on a journey into the mystical realm of electromagnetism and the proven phenomena which allow our infinitesimally weak brainwaves to radiate into space and circle the globe several times over.

In The Quantum World, leading physicists and New Scientist take you on a journey through quantum theory, its mind-bending properties and the technologies transforming our world. Forget everything you thought you knew about reality. The world is a seriously bizarre place. Things can exist in two places at once and travel backwards and forwards in time. Waves and particles are one and the same, and objects change their behaviour according to whether they are being watched.

Most people have heard about quantum physics and its remarkable, well-nigh bizarre claims. And most people would assume that quantum reality describes a world quite different from ours. In this book, David A. Grandy shows that one can find quantum puzzles, or variations thereof, in the backyard of everyday experience.

Los antiguos alquimistas intentaron encontrar el sentido del Universo buscando descubrir la conexion entre la mente y la materia. Algunos cientificos contemporaneos, en particular en el campo de la fisica cuantica, siguen elmismo camino. En esta reciente contribucion al estudio de la conciencia, el fisico Fred Alan Wolf revela lo que el denomina la "nueva alquimia", una simbiosis de las ideas de los antiguos alquimistas y de los nuevos cientificos.

Im Oktober 2013 setzte der Nobelpreis für Peter Higgs und François Englert den vorläufigen Höhepunkt in der verrückten Geschichte um das sogenannte Gottesteilchen, das Higgs-Boson. Schon im Juli des Vorjahres hatten die Physiker weltweit gejubelt: Mehr als fünfzig Jahre nachdem Peter Higgs und andere Wissenschaftler die Existenz des Teilchens theoretisch begründet hatten, war es im gigantischen Teilchenbeschleuniger CERN gefunden worden.

Con "La grande storia del tempo", Stephen Hawking, avvalendosi della collaborazione del fisico americano Leonard Mlodinow, ripresenta le proprie riflessioni sulle origini e il destino dell'universo già trattate nel libro "Dal big bang ai buchi neri" (1988). In questa edizione aggiornata e illustrata, oltre a far uso di un gran numero di esempi, diagrammi e illustrazioni esplicative, Hawking parla delle più recenti scoperte, dagli sviluppi della teoria delle superstringhe ai progressi nella ricerca di una teoria unificata della fisica.

Findes verden, eller gør den ikke? Findes tiden, eller gør den ikke? Findes der en ‘gud’, eller gør der ikke? Holger Bech Nielsen, dansk højenergifysiker på internationalt niveau, gør status efter et langt liv i fysikkens tjeneste. Han har søgt og søgt efter mening, men hvad har han fundet? I "Teorien om alt" fortæller den pris-vindende fysiker om sit liv og sin gerning - og ikke mindst om sit utrættelige forsøg på at finde Teorien Om Alt - at forklare, hvordan hele universet hænger sammen, og måske også, hvordan mennesket passer ind i ligningen.

In the late 1940s, a handful of visionaries were working to steer Europe toward a more peaceful future through science, and CERN, the European particle physics laboratory, was duly born. James Gillies tells the gripping story of particle physics, from the original atomists of ancient Greece through the people who made the crucial breakthroughs to CERN itself, one of the most ambitious scientific undertakings of our time, and its eventual confirmation of the Higgs boson.

For centuries mankind has waged war against the infections that, left untreated, would have the power to wipe out communities, or even entire populations. Yet for all our advanced scientific knowledge, only one human disease - smallpox - has ever been eradicated globally. In recent years, outbreaks of Ebola and Zika have provided vivid examples of how difficult it is to contain an infection once it strikes and the panic that a rapidly spreading epidemic can ignite.

A mind-bending exploration of gravity, the universe's greatest mystery. What is gravity? Nobody knows - and just about nobody knows that nobody knows. How something so pervasive can also be so mysterious, and how that mystery can be so wholly unrecognized outside the field of physics, is one of the greatest conundrums in modern science. But as award-winning author Richard Panek shows in this groundbreaking book, gravity is a cold case that we are closer to cracking than ever - and whose very investigation has yielded untold truths about the cosmos and humanity itself.

The New York Times best-selling author of Einstein's Dreams presents a collection of essays, written over the past 20 years, that displays his genius for bringing literary and scientific concerns into ringing harmony. Sometimes provocative, sometimes fanciful, always elegantly conceived and written, these meditations offer listeners a fascinating look into the creative compulsions shared by the scientist and the artist.

The "universe" refers to all "observable things", ranging in size from the entire cosmos to elementary particles. A guide for an enjoyable visit to the universe, this small tome on fundamental physics, cosmology, Higgs bosons, time travel, and all that is unlike any other analogous book. Its scientific statements are correct or, at least, they coincide with the opinions held by the vast majority of experts. It establishes clear distinctions between things we know for sure and things that we know that we do not know, or we do not understand.

Stephen Hawkings Vermächtnis. Brillanter Physiker, revolutionärer Kosmologe, unerschütterlicher Optimist: Stephen Hawking beantwortet in seinem letzten Werk die drängendsten Fragen unserer Zeit und nimmt uns mit auf eine persönliche Reise durch das Universum seiner Weltanschauung. Seine Gedanken zu Ursprung und Zukunft der Menschheit sind zugleich eine Mahnung, unseren Heimatplaneten besser vor den Gefahren unserer Gegenwart zu schützen.