Evolving living creatures, by existing, create new niches into which yet further new creatures can emerge. If life is abundant in the universe, this self-constructing, propagating, exploding diversity takes us beyond physics to biospheres everywhere. Particle or Wave is the first popular-level book to explain the origins and development of modern physical concepts about matter and the controversies surrounding them.
The dichotomy between particle and wave reflects a dispute--whether the universe's most elementary building blocks are discrete or continuous in nature--originating in antiquity when philosophers first speculated about the makeup of the physical world.
Charis Anastopoulos examines two of the earliest known theories about matter--the atomic theory, which attributed all physical phenomena to atoms and their motion in the void, and the theory of the elements, which described matter as consisting of the substances earth, air, fire, and water.
He then leads readers up through the ages to the very frontiers of modern physics to reveal how these seemingly contradictory ideas still lie at the heart of today's continuing debates. Anastopoulos explores the revolutionary contributions of thinkers like Nicolas Copernicus, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein. He shows how Einstein's ideas about relativity unify opposing concepts by identifying matter with energy, and how quantum mechanics goes even further by postulating the coexistence of the particle and the wave descriptions.
Anastopoulos surveys the latest advances in physics on the fundamental structure of matter, including the theories of quantum fields and elementary particles, and new cutting-edge ideas about the unification of all forces. This book reveals how the apparent contradictions of particle and wave reflect very different ways of understanding the physical world, and how they are pushing modern science to the threshold of new discoveries.
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The main goal of this work is to revisit the proof of the global stability of Minkowski space by D. Christodoulou and S. Klainerman, [Ch-KI]. We provide a new self-contained proof of the main part of that result, which concerns the full solution of the radiation problem in vacuum, for arbitrary asymptotically flat initial data sets. This can also be interpreted as a proof of the global stability of the external region of Schwarzschild spacetime.
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Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Reviewer: manouchk - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - July 24, Subject: What an insightfull book This book is incredibly insightful.
It is a very conceptual book. What impresses me is that when I did a graduation in Physics, reading this book was not recommended. Maybe a reason for that is that professors at my university were discussing electromagnetism thinking in term action at distance that is to say based on old physics.
Then this book is what you are looking for that helps you a lot to understand higher concepts of physics. The three most beautiful things or you can say great things about the book are from my experience : —. Clarity of intentions and understanding makes this book an ideal material. The authors are highly distinguished and precise in their field. And this book is written in such a way that this book maintains your faith and interest lesson by lesson. And the bonus point of this book is the authors are truly talented that keeps simple thing simple and elaborate complex things in very catchy way.
So , if you are really interested in this book then download the text pdf for free diretly from my drive. The great mystery story page The first clue Vectors The riddle of motion One clue remains Is heat a substance? The switchback The rate of exchange The philosophical background The kinetic theory of matter. The two electric fluids The magnetic fluids The first serious difficulty The velocity of light Light as substance The riddle of colour What is a wave?
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