Scrooge's Cryptic Carol

Name: Scrooge's Cryptic Carol
Brand: Springer, Berlin
SKU: 9780387948003
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Visions of Energy, Time and Quantum Nature

Autor: Robert Gilmore

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Springer, Berlin

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When the destination sign on Scrooge's train reads "HEAT DEATH" instead of "HEATHROW," when his dead...

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Autor

Robert Gilmore

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

1996

Stránek

252

EAN

9780387948003

ISBN

0387948007

Enbook ID

05247989

Vydavatel

Springer, Berlin

Hmotnost

584

Rozměry

156 x 234 x 17

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When the destination sign on Scrooge's train reads "HEAT DEATH" instead of "HEATHROW," when his dead partner Marley's face appears inexplicably as a talking head in a department store tv, and when the street lights outside his luxurious London flat begin acting strangely, it's a sign of a bad night to come. Like his famous ancestor, the modern Scrooge--who hews tightly to the credo "it Is enough for a man to understand his own business and look to his own advantage"--is about to be visited by ghosts. But it's not his hard heart that needs opening this time; it's his closed mind. The wisdom these ghosts bring is not love and charity but Science. Physicist Robert Gilmore, author of the popular Alice in Quantumland, here presents a delightful takeoff on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, where the three visitations represent Science Past (the Spirits of Energy and Entropy, who explain the laws of thermodynamics, equilibrium and that troublesome HEAT DEATH sign), Science Present (the Spirit of Time, who tells him of inconstancy, of change and also of creation), and Science Future (the surreal world of quantum uncertainty, where it is the observer or measurement that creates a unique reality). For everyone who wants a playful, painless yet surprisingly sophisticated introduction to the ideas of modern physics, this is a brilliant tour de force and a charming read.

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