Scrooge's Cryptic Carol: Visions of Energy, Time, and Quantum NatureSpringer Science & Business Media, 29 ago 1996 - 252 páginas When the destination sign on Scrooges train reads "HEAT DEATH" instead of "HEATHROW," when his dead partner Marleys face appears as a talking head in a department store TV, and when the street lights outside his flat begin acting strangely, it is a sign of a bad night to come. Like his famous ancestor, the modern Scrooge is about to be visited by ghosts. But its not his hard heart that needs opening; its his closed mind. Physicist Robert Gilmore, author of the popular Alice in Quantumland, presents here a delightful takeoff, where the three visitations represent Science Past, Present and Future. For everyone who wants a playful, painless yet surprisingly sophisticated introduction to the ideas of modern physics, this is a brilliant tour de force and a charming read. |
Índice
Marleys Ghost | 1 |
The First Visitation | 9 |
The Mistress of the World | 11 |
The Shadow of Entropy | 31 |
Heat Death | 47 |
The Second Visitation | 67 |
Relatively Speaking | 69 |
The Light Barrier | 87 |
Never Mind the Destination Enjoy the Scenery | 147 |
The Third Visitation | 165 |
The Ghost in the Atom | 167 |
Virtually Uncertain | 185 |
No Atom of Doubt | 207 |
Per Amplitude Ad Astra | 225 |
Not the Man He Was | 245 |
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