Nothing A Very Short Introduction Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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• Release Date : 25 June 2009

What is 'the void'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - 'nothing' - exist? This text explores the science & history of the elusive void

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 30 May 2002

Quantum Theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• File Size : 53,6 Mb
• Release Date : 30 August 2012

Metaphysics is one of the traditional four main branches of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic and epistemology. It is also an area that continues to attract and hold a fascination for

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 23 November 2023

Following the discovery of the Higgs boson, Frank Close has produced this major revision to his classic and compelling introduction to the fundamental particles that make up the universe.

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• File Size : 36,6 Mb
• Release Date : 22 February 2001

In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's trial and condemnation by the Inquisition was caused not by his defiance of the Church, but

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 28 October 2021

What is time? What does it mean for time to pass? Is it possible to travel in time? What is the difference between the past and future? Until the work

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 25 October 2007

Games are played everywhere: from economics to evolutionary biology, and from social interactions to online auctions. This title shows how to play such games in a rational way, and how

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 26,6 Mb
• Release Date : 25 April 2024

Introduces readers to the basic properties of light -reflection and refraction, polarization, and interference- before moving on to how light is generated, its role in relativity, and quantum effects it

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• File Size : 24,6 Mb
• Release Date : 24 July 2008

100 years ago, Einstein's theory of relativity shattered the world of physics. Our comforting Newtonian ideas of space and time were replaced by bizarre and counterintuitive conclusions: if you move at

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 25 July 2019

Physics, the fundamental science of matter and energy, encompasses all levels of nature from the subatomic to the cosmic, and underlies much of the technology around us. Understanding the physics