Underpinning all the other branches of science, physics affects the way we live our lives, and ultimately how life itself functions ... In [this book], 23 ... physicists explore the frontiers of modern physics, from the particles inside an atom to the stars that make up a galaxy…
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"This book investigates the key frontiers in modern-day physics, exploring our Universe - from the particles inside an atom to the stars that make up a galaxy, from brain research to the latest advances in high-speed electronic research networks. Each of the nineteen self-contai…
A guide to the hottest topics in physics for both scientists and general readers, written by leading international experts.
"This book investigates the key frontiers in modern-day physics, exploring our Universe - from the particles inside an atom to the stars that make up a galaxy, from brain research to the latest advances in high-speed electronic research networks. Each of the nineteen self-contai…
"This book investigates the key frontiers in modern-day physics, exploring our Universe - from the particles inside an atom to the stars that make up a galaxy, from brain research to the latest advances in high-speed electronic research networks. Each of the nineteen self-contai…
A guide to the hottest topics in physics for both scientists and general readers, written by leading international experts.
"This book investigates the key frontiers in modern-day physics, exploring our Universe - from the particles inside an atom to the stars that make up a galaxy, from brain research to the latest advances in high-speed electronic research networks. Each of the nineteen self-contai…
"[...] Many nineteenth-century dissenters against an emerging regime of U.S. space power nonetheless saw in the tools of astronomy, land surveying, and navigation a means of producing alternatives to that regime. And it is to these dissenters that this book will turn for insight…
"The cosmic aspirations of present-day United States nationalists are not recent developments. Efforts to control and exploit the universe have deep roots in the nineteenth century. From John Adams to military explorer John C. Frémont to astronomer Maria Mitchell, officials and …