The Nobel Prize-winning physicist and bestselling author of The First Three Minutes describes the grand quest for a unifying theory of nature--one that can explain events as disparate as the cohesion inside the atom and the gravitational tug between the sun and Earth. From the T…
Discusses the search for nature's final laws of the universe.
A new generation of observatories, now being completed worldwide, will give astronomers not just a new window on the cosmos but a whole new sense with which to explore and experience the heavens above us. Instead of collecting light waves or radio waves, these novel instruments …
Geometry and nature: in memory of W.K. Clifford : a Conference on New …
by Clifford, William Kingdon, Bourguignon, J.-P., (Jean-Pierre), Conference on New Trends in Geometrical and Topological Methods, São João da Madeira, Portugal), Nencka, Hanna
fromContemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society)
"Opening with the author's attempt to sneak herself and her father into a conference attended by the planet's great scientific thinkers (including Brian Greene, Max Tegmark, and coiner of the term "black hole" John Wheeler), Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn takes readers on an exh…