Physics

The book answers questions that interest many people: how to assess the threat of radiation and protect against it, is it worth removing radionuclides with a...

Revolutionary string theory claims that we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but only four of these dimensions are accessible to human perception. Accordin...

Marcus Chown is a British scientist, journalist and writer, one of the best popularizers of science today. Few people can talk about the most complex scienti...

The book you have picked up is a rare alloy of a good presentation of the foundations of modern physics and its history. The history of science appears here ...

... This book tells about the history of the ether and how it looks in the view of a modern theoretical physicist... The fact is that there is no chance of p...

Niels Bohr is one of the key figures in the quantum revolution that swept science in the 20th century. His model of the atom implied a transformation of the ...

James Clerk Maxwell was one of the most brilliant minds of the 19th century. His work formed the basis of two revolutionary concepts of the next century - th...

Many physicists spend their entire lives studying specific aspects of the physical world and therefore do not see the big picture. Einstein and Schrödinger s...

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It was the universe’s most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to explain how physics works. It had to be found. But proje...

A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forwar...