ISBN: 0091773822 9780091773823

Category: Science / Physics / General

Page count: 240

Since the 19th century, physicists have talked a private language they share only with mathematicians. And, since the 1920s, physics has not even shared our everyday idea of space and time - the sub-atomic world of the quantum seems to be ruled by weirder rules than we can understand. This book cuts through the maths and the strangeness to the underlying concepts, the basic intuitions about the way the world works that guide the researchers of physics such as Feynman, Hawking, Penrose and Weinberg. Lawrence Krauss is the author of The Fifth Essence.