Why Does E = mc²?
ISBN: 9780306819117
Systematik: R 82
Verlag: Philadalphia : Perseus Books
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Schlagworte:
R 82
Cox, Brian:
Why Does E = mc²? : (And why should we care?) / Brian Cox ; Jeff Forshaw. - Philadalphia : Perseus Books, 2010. - 249 S.
NE: ; Forshaw, Jeff
ISBN 9780306819117 Buch kt.
ENGLISCH ; ENGLISCH SPRACHE ; RELATIVITÄTSTHEORIE
What does E=mc² actually mean? Professors Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of twenty-first-century science to unpack Einstein´s famous equation. Explaining and simplifying notions of energy, mass, and light - while exploding commonly held misconceptions - they demonstrate how the structure of nature itself is contained within this equation. Along the way, we visit the site of one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted: the now-famous Large Hadron Collider, a gigantic particle accelerator capable of re-creating conditions that existed fractions of a second after the Big Bang.
A collaboration between one of the youngest professors in the United Kingdom and a distinguished popular physicist, Why Does E=mc²? is one of the most exciting and accessible explanations of the theory of relativity.
von Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw