Matter: The Magnificent Illusion - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Guido Tonelli, Edward Williams (Translator)Publish date:01/13/25Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Polity PressISBN-13:9781509564149ISBN-10:1509564144UPC:9781509564149Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:PhysicsSize:8.65 x 5.85 x 0.92 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SC2EQF6M9F
Matter: The Magnificent Illusion
What are we made up of? What holds material bodies together? Is there a difference between terrestrial matter and celestial matter - the matter that makes up the Earth and the matter that makes up the Sun and other stars? When Democritus stated, between the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, that we are made up of atoms, few people believed him. Not until Galileo and Newton in the seventeenth...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Polity PressISBN-13:9781509564149ISBN-10:1509564144UPC:9781509564149Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:PhysicsSize:8.65 x 5.85 x 0.92 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SC2EQF6M9F
Guido Tonelli is a prize-winning physicist and one of the leaders in the discovery of the Higgs boson. He is Professor of General Physics at the University of Pisa and a physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. His many publications include the bestselling book Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began.
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