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Quantum Enigmaby Bruce Rosenblum; Fred Kutter
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 15.95In trying to understand the atom, physicists built quantum mechanics, the most successful theory in science and the basis of one-third of our economy. They found, to their embarrassment, that with their theory, physics encounters consciousness. Authors Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner explain all this in non-technical terms with help from some fanciful stories and anecdotes about the theory's developers. They present the quantum mystery honestly, emphasizing what is and what is not speculation. Quantum Enigma's description of the experimental quantum facts, and the quantum theory explaining them, is undisputed. Interpreting what it all means, however, is heatedly controversial. But every interpretation of quantum physics involves consciousness.... more...
Cosmic Blueprintby Paul Davies
Templeton Foundation Press 2011; US$ 9.99In this critically acclaimed book, first published in 1988 and now reprinted in paperback, scientist and author Paul Davies explains how recent scientific advances are transforming our understanding of the emergence of complexity and organization in the universe. Melding a variety of ideas and disciplines from biology, fundamental physics, computer science, mathematics, genetics, and neurology, Davies presents his provocative theory on the source of the universe's creative potency. He explores the new paradigm (replacing the centuries-old Newtonian view of the universe) that recognizes the collective and holistic properties of physical systems and the power of self-organization. He casts the laws in physics in the role of... more...
The Non-Local Universeby Robert Nadeau; Menas Kafatos
Oxford University Press, USA 2001; US$ 15.00Classical physics states that physical reality is local, or that a measurement at one point in space cannot cannot influence what occurs at another beyond a fairly short distance. Until recently this seemed like an immutable truth in nature. However, in 1997 experiments were conducted in which light particles (photons) originated under certain conditions and traveled in opposite directions to detectors located about seven miles apart. The amazing results indicated that the photons "interacted" or "communicated" with one another instantly or "in no time," leading to the revelation that physical reality is non-local--a discovery that Robert Nadeau and Menas Kafatos view as "the most momentous in the history... more...
The Grand Designby Leonard Mlodinow; Stephen Hawking
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 13.99THE FIRST MAJOR WORK IN NEARLY A DECADE BY ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREAT THINKERS—A MARVELOUSLY CONCISE BOOK WITH NEW ANSWERS TO THE ULTIMATE QUESTIONS OF LIFE When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the nature of reality? Why are the laws of nature so finely tuned as to allow for the existence of beings like ourselves? And, finally, is the apparent “grand design” of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion—or does science offer another explanation? The most fundamental questions about the origins of the universe and of life itself, once the province of philosophy, now occupy the territory where scientists, philosophers,... more...
The End of Timeby Julian Barbour
Oxford University Press, USA 2000; US$ 21.95Richard Feynman once quipped that "Time is what happens when nothing else does." But Julian Barbour disagrees: if nothing happened, if nothing changed, then time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change that we perceive occurring all around us, not time. Put simply, time does not exist. In this highly provocative volume, Barbour presents the basic evidence for a timeless universe, and shows why we still experience the world as intensely temporal. It is a book that strikes at the heart of modern physics. It casts doubt on Einstein's greatest contribution, the spacetime continuum, but also points to the solution of one of the great paradoxes of modern science, the chasm between classical and quantum physics. Indeed,... more...
The Man Who Changed Everythingby Basil Mahon
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2005; US$ 29.95This is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention or previous expectations, he produced some of the most original scientific thinking of the nineteenth century — and his discoveries went on to shape the twentieth century. more...
The Arctic Climate Systemby Mark C. Serreze; Roger G. Barry; Alexander J. Dessler; John T. Houghton; Michael J. Rycroft
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 48.00This comprehensive, up-to-date assessment begins by outlining early Arctic exploration and the growth of modern research. Recent climate variability and trends, and projected future states are discussed in detail. The Arctic Climate System provides an overview of the subject for researchers and advanced students in a wide range of disciplines. more...
Concepts of Particle Physicsby Kurt Gottfried; Victor F. Weisskopf
Oxford University Press 1987; US$ 29.95Enhances the material outlined in the first volume of "Concepts of Particle Physics", presenting it in greater detail. more...
Concepts of Particle Physicsby Kurt Gottfried; Victor F. Weisskopf
Oxford University Press 1986; US$ 29.951. Quantum Electrodynamics 2. Hadronic Spectroscopy 3. Quantum Chromodynamics 4. Deep Inelastic Lepton-Hadron Scattering 5. The Electroweak Interaction. Appendices: Bose Fields, the Dirac Field, Causality and its Consequences, Vacuum Polarization, Solutions of Dirac's Equation in a Spherical Enclosure more...
Quantum Field Theoryby Mark Srednicki
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 68.00Textbook on elementary particles for graduate students studying quantum field theory and elementary particle theory. more...