A User's Guide to the Universe : : Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty
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Special relativity -- Quantum weirdness -- Randomness -- The standard model -- Time travel -- The expanding universe -- The big bang -- Extraterrestrials -- The future.
Explains string theory, quantum mechanics, parallel universes and the beginning of time in a conversational, easy-to-understand way and answers enduring questions about life on other planets and breaking the light-speed barrier.
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PUBLISHED
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: vii, 296 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780470496510
0470496517
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Blomquist, Jeff, 1984-
SUBJECTS
Physics.