The Universe in the Rearview Mirror: How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality

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Автор: Dave Goldberg

Название: The Universe in the Rearview Mirror: How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality

Издательство: Dutton

Год: 2013

Формат: PDF/ePub

Размер: 27 Mb

Язык: Английский

A physicist speeds across space, time and everything in between showing that our elegant universe—from the Higgs boson to antimatter to the most massive group of galaxies—is shaped by hidden symmetries that have driven all our recent discoveries about the universe and all the ones to come.

Why is the sky dark at night? Is it possible to build a shrink-ray gun? If there is antimatter, can there be antipeople? Why are past, present, and future our only options? Are time and space like a butterfly's wings?

No one but Dave Goldberg, the coolest nerd physicist on the planet, could give a hyper drive tour of the universe like this one. Not only does he answer the questions your stoner friends came up with in college, but he also reveals the most profound discoveries of physics with infectious, Carl Sagan–like enthusiasm and accessibility.