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Cargando... Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Naturepor Peter Atkins, pw atkins
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. After the first chapter, I get the feeling that Atkins has "Just Six Numbers" by Martin Rees in his sights, and is getting ready to fire away. Hopefully this will be less just grumpy than Atkins's "On Being". "Anarchy", "indolence", and "ignorance" as grounding concepts for a non-frivolous account of the laws of mechanics (classical and quantum), thermodynamics, and electromagnetics? Yes, surprisingly, and physical chemist Atkins's account is a fresh and innovative one indeed. He gets away with saying that nothing much happened at the Big Bang. In the realm of fundamental constants, he suggests some radical revaluations and redimensionalizations that physicists could adopt. (E.g., they could eliminate the Boltzmann constant and redefine entropy as a pure number. And they could measure temperatures in inverse zeptojoules or in picoseconds!) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where did these laws and these constants come from? And why are the laws so fruitful when written in the language of mathematics? Peter Atkins considers the minimum effort needed to equip the Universe with its laws and its constants. He explores the origin of the conservation of energy, of electromagnetism, of classical and quantum mechanics, and of thermodynamics, showing how all these laws spring from deep symmetries. The revolutionary result is a short but immensely rich weaving together of the fundamental ideas of physics. With his characteristic wit, erudition, and economy, Atkins sketches out how the laws of Nature can spring from very little. Or arguably from nothing at all. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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