Fundamentals : ten keys to reality / Frank Wilczek.
"One of our great contemporary scientists presents ten insights that illuminate what every thinking person needs to know about what the world is and how it works. Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek's Fundamentals is built around a simple but profound idea: the models of the world we construct as children are practical and adequate for everyday life, but they do not bring in the surprising and mind-expanding revelations of modern science. To do that, we must look at the world anew, combining clear thinking with an openness to wonder. This "born again" world is in many ways larger, fuller, and much stranger than it appears. Through an exploration of space, time, matter, and ideas--and equipped with facts, questions, and brilliant speculations--Wilczek guides us through the past, present, and future of fundamental science. Readers will emerge with an expanded vision of our universe."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735223790
- ISBN: 0735223793
- Physical Description: xviii, 254 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface: Born again -- Introduction -- What there is. There's plenty of space ; There's plenty of time ; There are very few ingredients ; There are very few laws ; There's plenty of matter and energy -- Beginnings and ends. Cosmic history is an open book ; Complexity emerges ; There's plenty more to see ; Mysteries remain ; Complementarity is mind-expanding -- Afterword: The long voyage home. |
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Subject: | Reality. Cosmology. Physics. |
Genre: | Instructional and educational works. |
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- 6 of 6 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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North Kansas City Public Library | 530.01 WILCZEK 2021 (Text) | 0001002432407 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Fundamentals : Ten Keys to Reality
" Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. . . . Wilczek writes with breathtaking economy and clarity, and his pleasure in his subject is palpable." -- The New York Times Book Review One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. With clarity and an infectious sense of joy, he guides us through the essential concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how it works. Through these pages, we come to see our reality in a new way--bigger, fuller, and stranger than it looked before. Synthesizing basic questions, facts, and dazzling speculations, Wilczek investigates the ideas that form our understanding of the universe: time, space, matter, energy, complexity, and complementarity. He excavates the history of fundamental science, exploring what we know and how we know it, while journeying to the horizons of the scientific world to give us a glimpse of what we may soon discover. Brilliant, lucid, and accessible, this celebration of human ingenuity and imagination will expand your world and your mind.