Matt Strassler Waves in an Impossible Sea (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Waves in an Impossible SeaCondition: NewFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/21/2024Subtitle: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic OceanISBN-10: 154160329XEAN: 9781541603295ISBN: 9781541603295Publisher: Basic BooksDescription: In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human experience, and empty space. He begins with a simple mystery of motion. When we drive at highway speeds with the windows down, the wind beats against our faces. Yet our planet hurtles through the cosmos at 150 miles per second, and we feel nothing of it. How can our voyage be so tranquil when, as Einstein discovered, matter warps space, and space deflects matter?The answer, Strassler reveals, is that empty space is a sea, albeit a paradoxically strange one. Much like water and air, it ripples in various ways, and we ourselves, made from its ripples, can move through space as effortlessly as waves crossing an ocean. Deftly weaving together daily experience and fundamental physics-the musical universe, the enigmatic quantum, cosmic fields, and the Higgs boson-Strassler shows us how all things, familiar and unfamiliar, emerge from what seems like nothing at all.Accessible and profound, Waves in an Impossible Sea is the ultimate guide to our place in the universe.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Matt StrasslerGenre: Science Nature & MathItem Width: 36mmItem Weight: 600gRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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