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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 530.09
EAN: 9780143036036
ISBN: 0143036033
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: December 01, 2005
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Sales Rank: 63389
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Product Description:
Physics, once known as “natural philosophy,” is the most basic science, explaining the world we live in, from the largest scale down to the very, very, very smallest, and our understanding of it has changed over many centuries. In Black Bodies and Quantum Cats, science writer Jennifer Ouellette traces key developments in the field, setting descriptions of the fundamentals of physics in their historical context as well as against a broad cultural backdrop. Newton’s laws are illustrated via the film Addams Family Values, while Back to the Future demonstrates the finer points of special relativity. Poe’s “The Purloined Letter” serves to illuminate the mysterious nature of neutrinos, and Jeanette Winterson’s novel Gut Symmetries provides an elegant metaphorical framework for string theory.
An enchanting and edifying read, Black Bodies and Quantum Cats shows that physics is not an arcane field of study but a profoundly human endeavor—and a fundamental part of our everyday world.
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This is a great book that skims the surface of a number of physics topics. The author does a great job explaining each topic in an easy to understand manner, then continues to go more in depth, while still being understandable for the average reader. Being somewhat of a physics buff myself, I found the light heartedness of the book refreshing. Far different than reading Hawking or Greene, but equally as interesting. Don't miss Jen's blog!
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I have read many scientific publications in my life so when I do read book with a scientific focus I have many standards that I like to have fulfilled(in other words im very anal lol). The only reason that I rate this book as low as I did is only because I was completely expecting a book like Stephen Hawking's, A Breif History of Time (great book by the way!!!) I have taken physics in highschool and in college and I felt that her delivery of many physics concepts were too dumbed down and many fruitful ... Read More
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Real science made fun.In easy bites, she starts with an anecdote, like SJ Gould and teases you into understanding principles of physics you never thought you coud learn. In an antiscience age, in an antirational age, this is to be cherished
Marvin Thalenberg MD
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I found this a curiously fun sort of read-different from my usual choice of reading entertainment. I don't typically read science books, mostly because I'm lazy and don't want to work at understanding something really technical (many science writers put off the general public by delving too deeply), but hey folks, the author makes the science easy to grasp. And the writing style is witty, light and intelligent. Ouellette has a gift for marrying science, history and storytelling.
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If Jennifer Ouellette had been writing books like this when I was a kid, she'd have been my favorite explicator of science. Instead, I was reading Isaac Asimov, who was fun and interesting but a scientist himself, with a tendency to focus on minute details that were sometimes a little bewildering to someone just getting her feet wet. Ouellette knows not only how to get her physics-phobic audience's attention, but avoids bogging them down in technicalities.
Occasionally, the techniques of writing ... Read More
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