Dimensions
136 x 214 x 44mm
Particle Physics From A To Z.
Second Ediiton.
At a temperature of zero degrees Celsius, every cubic centimetre of air at sea level contains 45 billion molecules.
Observations of light from distant quasars, made on Earth today, seem to affect the way the light behaved when it set out on its journey, 10 billion years ago.
The quantum world is the world of the very small - the micro-world - where many of the greatest scientific advances of the 20th century have been made. In this book John Gribbin, an award-winning science writer, tells the whole story of the micro-world and the people who made the discoveries.
'Q is for Quantum' is about the inner structure of everything, a quest which, like the quest for the understanding of the Universe at large, goes back to the ancient Greeks and touches all of scientific and philosophic thought since then.
