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The Beautiful Invisible: Creativity, Imagination, and Theoretical Physics

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The Beautiful Invisible: Creativity, Imagination, and Theoretical Physics - Vignale, Giovanni
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In engaging and at times poetic prose, and with ample quotations from many of the writers he admires, Vignale presents his own unorthodox accounts of fundamental theoretical concepts such as Newtonian mechanics, superconductivity, and Einstein's theory of relativity, illuminating their profound implications. Throughout, the author treats readers to glimpses of physics as "exercised in the still night, when only the moon rages." Indeed, as we delve behind now-familiar concepts such as "electron spin" and "black hole," the ...

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The Beautiful Invisible: Creativity, Imagination, and Theoretical Physics 2011, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780199574841

Hardcover