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Once Upon a Universe

Not-so-Grimm tales of Cosmology

By Gilmore, Robert Gilmore, Robert Baer

Hardcover | 9780387955667

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First Snow White encounters one of the Little People, then one of the Even Smaller People, and finally one of the Truly Infinitesimal People. And as diligently as she searches, the only dwarves she can find are collapsed stars! Clearly, she's not at home in her well-known Grimm Brothers fairy tale, Continue

First Snow White encounters one of the Little People, then one of the Even Smaller People, and finally one of the Truly Infinitesimal People. And as diligently as she searches, the only dwarves she can find are collapsed stars! Clearly, she's not at home in her well-known Grimm Brothers fairy tale, but in a strange new landscape that features quantum behavior, the wavelike properties of particles, and the Uncertainty Principle. She (and we) must have entered, in short, one of the worlds created by Robert Gilmore, the physicist and fabulist who earlier brought us the classic Alice in Quantumland. Whether he's recasting such classic tales as "Jack and the Quarkstalk," "Waking Beauty," or "Cinderenda and the Death of Stars," Gilmore shows us that there's more than one way to shed light on the strange profundities of modern physics and cosmology. Black holes, dying stars, traveling backwards through time to the Big Bang--they're all here in accessible, instructive, and charmingly illustrated retellings. [예스24 제공]

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Hardcover 228 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0387955666
  • ISBN-13: 9780387955667
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Pub date: Nov 11, 2003
  • Dimensions: 240 mm x 160 mm x 20 mm Just how big is that?
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