Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Leon M. Lederman, Christopher T. HillPublish date:2/1/2008Pages:363
Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9781591025757ISBN-10:1591025753UPC:9781591025757Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Physics, Study & TeachingBook Topic:Astrophysics, RelativitySize:8.96 x 6.30 x 0.73 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC19RA56NX
Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe
When scientists peer through a telescope at the distant stars in outer space or use a particle-accelerator to analyze the smallest components of matter, they discover that the same laws of physics govern the whole universe at all times and all places. Physicists call the eternal, ubiquitous constancy of the laws of physics symmetry. Symmetry is the basic underlying principle that defines the laws...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9781591025757ISBN-10:1591025753UPC:9781591025757Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:Physics, Study & TeachingBook Topic:Astrophysics, RelativitySize:8.96 x 6.30 x 0.73 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC19RA56NX
Leon M. Lederman, Nobel Laureate (Batavia, IL) is the author of Beyond the God Particle, Quantum Physics for Poets, and Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe (coauthored with Christopher T. Hill), as well as The God Particle (with Dick Teresi). He has served as the editor of Portraits of Great American Scientists and a contributor to Science Literacy for the Twenty-First Century. He is formerly...
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