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The Matter of Everything - A History of Discovery (Paperback)
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The Matter of Everything - A History of Discovery (Paperback)
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List price R320
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Discovery Miles 3 000
You Save R20 (6%)
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The astonishing story of twentieth-century physics, told through
the twelve experiments that changed our world A 2022 BOOK OF THE
YEAR FOR: NEW SCIENTIST * WATERSTONES * SUNDAY TIMES 'A splendid
idea, vividly carried out: I enjoyed this book enormously’ PHILIP
PULLMAN 'A rich history of beautiful discoveries' ROBIN INCE 'An
all-action thriller, laced with some of the most profound ideas
humans have ever had’ BRIAN ENO ----------- How did a piece of
gold foil completely change our understanding of atoms? What part
did a hot air balloon play in the discovery of cosmic rays? How did
the experiments in the run-up to the Large Hadron Collider lead to
the invention of the World Wide Web? Asking questions has always
been at the heart of physics, our unending quest to understand the
Universe and how everything in it behaves. How do we know all that
we know about the world today? It’s not simply because we have
the maths – it’s because we have done the experiments.
Accelerator physicist Suzie Sheehy introduces us to the creative
and curious people who, through a combination of genius,
persistence and luck, staged the ground-breaking experiments of the
twentieth century. From the serendipitous discovery of X-rays in a
German laboratory, to the scientists trying to prove Einstein wrong
(and inadvertently proving him right), The Matter of Everything
takes us on a journey through the history of experiments that
transformed our world.
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