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Elements of REALITY - 1925-1935 - The Onset of an UNFINISHED Philosophical Struggle (Paperback): Felix Alba-Juez Elements of REALITY - 1925-1935 - The Onset of an UNFINISHED Philosophical Struggle (Paperback)
Felix Alba-Juez
R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Out of stock
Aiming at REALITY - Statistical Entropy, Disorder, and the Quantum (Paperback): Riccardo Fortunati Aiming at REALITY - Statistical Entropy, Disorder, and the Quantum (Paperback)
Riccardo Fortunati; Felix Alba-Juez
R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Out of stock
Nighing REALITY - Quantum Fusion after 25 years of Confusion (Paperback): Felix Alba-Juez Nighing REALITY - Quantum Fusion after 25 years of Confusion (Paperback)
Felix Alba-Juez
R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Out of stock
Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore (Paperback): Manuel Toharia-Cortes, Jesus Zamora Bonilla Galloping with Light - Einstein, Relativity, and Folklore (Paperback)
Manuel Toharia-Cortes, Jesus Zamora Bonilla; Felix Alba-Juez
R617 Discovery Miles 6 170 Out of stock

Tired of popular science books written by renowned physicists who think you cannot comprehend what they do, so... all you deserve is the illusion of understanding? If yes, this is the book for you. The fact that the reader may not have a scientific education does not mean that s/he does not have the intelligence to understand profound concepts -- as long as they are presented with semantic and epistemological clarity. After all, Einstein said that Science is simply the refinement of our intuition and everyday experiences. Galloping with Light is a symbolic cavalcade that starts with the discovery of fire 1.5 million years ago; it allegorically employs the imagination of an adolescent called Einstein to explain the Theory of Relativity in non-scientific terms, and ends with the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon in 1969 -- depositing on lunar soil a laser retro-reflector which would prove, once again, that Einstein was right. Motivated by his own difficulties to understand Relativity Theory, and convinced that it is possible to teach the layperson without distorting the subject matter, the author takes an approach utterly opposed to that of most popular science books. Knowing he has to demolish what the reader understands by time, distance, and motion, the author -using his experiences as a child, adolescent, and adult- dedicates the first half of the book to convince the reader that our intuition and common sense, as applied to those three everyday concepts, have a foundation as solid as that of a castle on the sand. The purpose of this book is to demystify and 'defolklorize' the reader; to destroy the aura of mystery and incomprehensibility surrounding Relativity Theory, unmasking and debunking the body of popular (and scientific) beliefs (mostly erroneous) which -taking advantage of the confusion between relativity and subjectivity, as well as of Einstein's popularity and prestige- have been used to validate preposterous assertions in fields like psychology, morality, spirituality, sociology, literature, art, etc.

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