Instability Rules
eBook - ePub

Instability Rules

The Ten Most Amazing Ideas of Modern Science

  1. 228 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Instability Rules

The Ten Most Amazing Ideas of Modern Science

About this book

World-altering discoveries that reveal a universe of uncertainty and constant change
Whether probing the farthest reaches of the vast universe or exploring the microscopic world of genetics and the subatomic world of quantum mechanics, Instability Rules is a remarkably informative and engaging look at ten milestone discoveries and their discoverers-a wide range of very human personalities whose insights have dramatically altered our most basic assumptions about human existence during the last century. The stories include Edwin Hubble and the expanding universe, Alfred Wegener and continental drift, Neils Bohr and quantum mechanics, Alan Turing and artificial intelligence, and James Watson and Francis Crick and DNA. Also covering discoveries of the twenty-first century that are already refining these and other ideas, Instability Rules is an exhilarating, sometimes amusing encounter with the defining scientific discoveries of our age.

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Information

Year
2008
Print ISBN
9780471380429
eBook ISBN
9780470312544
Edition
1
Subtopic
Physics
Index
Physics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface: “It Moves …”
  6. 1 Hubble and the Expanding Universe
  7. 2 Einstein and the Wonder of Light
  8. 3 Bohr and the Puzzles of the Quantum World
  9. 4 Wegener and the Dance of the Continents
  10. 5 Big Bang, Big Crunch, and Big Bore
  11. 6 Fermat, Godel, and Fuzzy Math
  12. 7 Mendel, Watson, Crick, and the Human Genome
  13. 8 Hominids, Humans, and the Search for Origins
  14. 9 Turing and the Brain as Computer, and Vice Versa
  15. 10 Freud, the Unconscious, and Other Views
  16. Acknowledgments
  17. Photo Credits
  18. Index