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Easy, enlightening and mind-stretching, here are the answers to the 20 biggest questions of quantum physics, relativity and our attempts to grasp the true nature of reality.

Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense.

Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar anomalies have revolutionised our world: in the sixt

Two bestselling authors first met in a televised Caltech debate on “the future of God,” one an articulate advocate for spirituality, the other a prominent physicist.  This remarkable book is the product of that serendipitous encounter and the contentious—

In the ten years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. That edition was on the cutting edge of what was

The Grand Design starts by tracing the history of astronomy from the time of the Greeks and goes on to quantum mechanics, String Theory, and a Unified Theory of Everything.The authors ask the basic questions that have been asked by scientists and philosop

In this captivating and lucid book, novelist and science writer Alan Lightman chronicles twenty-four great discoveries of twentieth-century science--everything from the theory of relativity to mapping the structure of DNA.These discoveries radically chang

Radiative Processes in Astrophysics: This clear, straightforward, and fundamental introduction is designed to present-from a physicist's point of view-radiation processes and their applications to astrophysical phenomena and space science. It covers

Explains the physics behind each of the four ideas - the conservation of energy, the second law of thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics - and deftly untangles for lay readers such knotty concepts as entropy, the relativity of time,

From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams, a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities--and impossibilities--of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between

Can space be divided into smaller

From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams and Mr g, a meditation on the unexpected ways in which recent scientific findings have shaped our understanding of ourselves and our place in the cosmos.

With all the passion, curiosity, and precise y

Science and technology continually transform our experience and society in ways that often seem to be beyond our control. This book explores the origins, nature, and meaning of such change and our capacity to govern it. As the power of technology continue

The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in zombielike states, neither alive nor dead; and twinned particles that share

'The Analysis of Matter' was a companion volume to 'The Analysis of Mind'. Russell develops his views about the philosophy of science out of the theories of scientists such as Einstein, Bohr and Heisenberg. 

作者：Stephen Hawking, Lucy Hawking

书名：Unlocking the Universe《打开宇宙之门》

简介：What would it have been like to walk the lava-filled earth four and a half bi

作者：Stephen Hawking

书名：The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of: The Most Astounding Papers of Quantum Physics--and How They Shook the Scientific World《梦想是由什么

作者：Stephen Hawking

书名：A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein《不断持续的幻觉 : 霍金点评爱因斯坦科学文集》

简介：B

作者：Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose

书名：The Nature of Space and Time《时空的本质》

简介：Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is

作者：Stephen Hawking

书名：Black Holes: The Reith Lectures《黑洞:里斯讲座》

简介：“It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is th

作者：Stephen Hawking

书名：On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy《在巨人的肩膀上》

简介：In On the Shoulders of Giants, Stephen Hawk

作者：Stephen Hawking

书名：The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe《 宇宙简史:起源与归宿》

英文简介：Based on a series of lectures given at C

作者：Stephen Hawking

书名：Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays《黑洞和小宇宙》

英文简介：NY Times bestseller. 13 extraordinary essays shed new light on

作者：Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow

书名：A Briefer History of Time《新时间简史》

英文简介：Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time,

作者：Stephen Hawking

书名：The Universe in a Nutshell《果壳中的宇宙》

英文简介：Stephen Hawking’s phenomenal, multimillion-copy bestseller, A Brief History o

作者：Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow

书名：The Grand Design《大设计》

英文简介：THE FIRST MAJOR WORK IN NEARLY A DECADE BY ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREAT THINKER

作者：Stephen Hawking

书名：Brief Answers to the Big Questions《十问:霍金沉思录》

英文简介：Stephen Hawking was recognized as one of the greatest minds of our time

作者：David Deutsch

书名：The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications《真实世界的脉络：平行宇宙及其寓意》

简介：For David Deutsch,

作者：Vaclav Smil

书名；Energy: A Beginner’s Guide《能量》

英文简介：With his famous equation, E=mc2, Einstein showed us that all matter can be described as e

作者：Carlo Rovelli

书名：Seven Brief Lessons on Physics《物理学七讲》

英文简介：This playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics briskly

作者：Jane Brox

书名：Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light《辉煌：人造光的进化》

英文简介：Brox plumbs the class implications of light—who had it, who d

作者：Markus Hotakainen

书名：Mars: From Myth and Mystery to Recent Discoveries《火星：从神话和神秘到最近的发现》

英文简介：This absorbing book tells the story of Mar

作者：A. C. Fisher

书名：Electrode Dynamics《电极动力学》

英文简介：This lavishly illustrated textbook provides a framework of the key concepts involved in electroc

作者：Stephen Barnett

书名：Quantum Information《量子信息》

英文简介：Quantum information - the subject - is a new and exciting area of science, which brings togeth

作者：Werner Krauth

书名：Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations《统计力学：算法和计算》

英文简介：This book discusses the computational approach in moder

作者：D.H. Perkins

书名：Particle Astrophysics, Second Edition《粒子天体物理学，第二版》

英文简介：The last years have seen a symbiosis of the fields of elementary pa

作者：Ta-Pei Cheng

书名：Relativity, Gravitation, and Cosmology: A Basic Introduction《相对论、万有引力和宇宙学：基础导论》

英文简介：Einstein's general theory of

作者：Stephen Blundell

书名：Magnetism in Condensed Matter《凝聚态物质中的磁性》

英文简介：The superb book describes the modern theory of the magnetic properties of

作者：Richard A. L. Jones

书名：Soft Condensed Matter《软凝聚物》

英文简介：Probably one of the most fashionable areas in the physical sciences today, Soft Condense

作者：Christopher J. Foot

书名：Atomic Physics《原子物理学》

英文简介：This text will thoroughly update the existing literature on atomic physics. Intended to accom

作者：Geoffrey Brooker

书名：Modern Classical Optics《现代古典光学》

英文简介：Praised as 'one of the best new optics books seen for some time', this book w

作者：James P. Sethna

书名： Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters and Complexity《统计力学：熵、序参数和复杂性》

英文简介：In each generation, scientists