“Assume the cow is a sphere.” So begins this lively, irreverent, and informative look at everything from the physics of boiling water to cutting-edge research at the observable limits of the universe. Rich with anecdotes and accessible examples,...
«Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of
quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so
again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread...
Humans have been trying to understand the physical universe since antiquity. Aristotle had one vision (the realm of the celestial spheres is perfect), and Einstein another (all motion is relativistic). More often than not, these different...