Why Does E=mc2? (And Why Should We Care?)
Brian Cox, "Why Does E=mc2? (And Why Should We Care?) "
English | ISBN: 0306818760 | 2010 | 249 pages | AZW3 | 486 KB
English | ISBN: 0306818760 | 2010 | 249 pages | AZW3 | 486 KB
The international bestseller: an introduction to the theory of relativity by the eminent physicists Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
What does E=mc2 actually mean? Dr. Brian Cox and Professor 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,
Read more