Culture and history Archives – Page 11 of 105

Relativity In Modern Physics

This new advanced textbook on relativity aims to present all the different aspects of this brilliant theory and its applications.

Enjoy Our Universe, You Have No Other Choice

Massimo Giovannini reviews in 2018 Enjoy Our Universe, You have No Other Choice.

The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

Enrico Fermi can be considered as one of the greatest physicists of all time due to his genius creativity in both theoretical and experimental physics. This book describes his prodigious story, as a m...

Inside Story: On the Courier’s new future

“I think the Courier is excellent; it’s sort of ‘frozen in time’, but in a rather appropriate and appealing way.”

The tale of a billion-trillion protons

Linac2, the machine that feeds CERN’s accelerator complex with protons, has entered a well-deserved retirement after 40 years of service.

Foundations of High-Energy-Density Physics: Physical Processes of Matter at Extreme Conditions

This book provides a comprehensive overview of high-energy-density physics (HEDP), which concerns the dynamics of matter at extreme temperatures and densities.

Quantized Detector Networks: The Theory of Observation

Quantised Detector Networks (QDN) theory was invented to reduce the level of metaphysics in the application of quantum mechanics (QM), moving the focus from the system under observation to the observe...

The Great Silence – The Science and Philosophy of Fermi’s Paradox

Andrea Giammanco reviews in 2018 The Great Silence - The Science and Philosophy of Fermi's Paradox.

Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation

In this book, Timothy Jorgensen, a professor of radiation medicine at Georgetown University in the US, recounts the story of the discovery of radioactivity and how mankind has been transformed by it, ...