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Landsberg, Peter Theodore.

Seeking ultimates : an intuitive guide to physics / Peter T. Landsberg. - Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Pub., �2000. - 1 online resource (xi, 314 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-293) and indexes.

What this book is about -- There is no free lunch. Temperature and energy: science for the environment / Painting by numbers. Elements and particles: science as prediction / Why you cannot unscramble an egg. Time and entropy: science and the unity of knowledge / How a butterfly caused a tornado. Chaos and life: science as synthesis / Now you see it, now you don't. Quantum theory: science and the invention of concepts / The galactic highway. Cosmology: science as history / Weirdness or purity. Mathematics: science as numbers / The last question. Does God exist? / Count Rumford -- Dmitri Mendeleev -- Ludwig Boltzmann -- Charles Darwin -- Max Planck -- Albert Einstein -- Arthur Eddington -- Blaise Pascal. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

ISBN: 0585249164 9780585249162 9781420046953 1420046950 9780750306560 0750306564 9780750306577 0750306572

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Physics.
Physique.
SCIENCE--Physics--General.
SCIENCE--Mechanics--General.
SCIENCE--Energy.
Physics.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: QC23 / .L324 2000eb

Dewey Class. No.: 530