Popular science at its best, this acclaimed classic work describes in stunning detail how cutting-edge discoveries in quantum physics and cosmology are helping to explain the origin and evolution of the universe, of space and time. Perfect Symmetry is an optimistic report about the ongoing synthesis of these two disciplines into a concerted effort to uncover the fundamental laws that not only describe how the stuff that makes up the universe -- matter and energy -- came into existence but also govern the behavior of the smallest and largest things, from subatomic particles to stars, galaxies, and the universe itself.
Written by that rarest of scientists -- one who is esteemed by his peers yet capable of making the most complex ideas comprehensible to laymen -- Perfect Symmetry is an enthralling intellectual adventure, science that reads like art.
| ISBN: | 9781439148884 |
| Publication date: | 26th May 2009 |
| Author: | Mary Gaitskill |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 400 pages |
| Genres: |
Cosmology and the universe Science: general issues Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory) |
Popular science at its best, this acclaimed classic work describes in stunning detail how cutting-edge discoveries in quantum physics and cosmology are helping to explain the origin and evolution of the universe, of space and time. Perfect Symmetry is an optimistic report about the ongoing synthesis of these two disciplines into a concerted effort to uncover the fundamental laws that not only describe how the stuff that makes up the universe -- matter and energy -- came into existence but also govern the behavior of the smallest and largest things, from subatomic particles to stars, galaxies, and the universe itself.
Perfect Symmetry features in the following genres: Cosmology and the universe, Science: general issues, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory)
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Perfect Symmetry was written by Mary Gaitskill and published by Simon & Schuster
Perfect Symmetry has 400 pages