Physics Atoms Atomic Physics Books Nature Agriculture Animals Biology ... The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms Marcus Chown Recommendation: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory Brian Greene Recommendation: MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB Richard Rhodes Recommendation: The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes-And Its Implications David Deutsch The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms , Marcus Chown "Every breath you take contains atoms forged in the blistering furnaces deep inside stars. Every flower you pick contains atoms blasted into space by stellar explosions that blazed brighter than a billion suns." Thus begins The Magic Furnace, an eloquent, extraordinary account of how scientists unraveled the mystery of atoms, and helped to explain the dawn of life itself. The Elegant Universe , Brian Greene Explains the layers of mystery surrounding string theory to reveal a universe that consists of eleven dimensions. A lucid voyage through modern physics that brings us closer than ever to understanding how the universe works. Softcover. DLC: Superstring theories. The Making of the Atomic Bomb , Richard Rhodes If the first 270 pages of this book had been published separately, they would have made up a lively, insightful, beautifully written history of theoretical physics and the men and women who plumbed the mysteries of the atom. Along with the following 600 pages, they become a sweeping epic, filled with terror and pity, of the ultimate scientific quest: the development of the ultimate weapon. Rhodes is a peerless explainer of difficult concepts; he is even better at chronicling the personalities who made the discoveries that led to the Bomb. Niels Bohr dominates the first half of the book as J. Robert Oppenheimer does the second; both men were gifted philosophers of science as well as brilliant physicists. The central irony of this book, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, is that the greatest minds of the century contributed to the greatest destructive force in history. | |
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