For many of us, physics, like math, has always been a thing of mystery and complexity. In First You Build a Cloud, K. C. Cole provides cogent explanations through animated prose, metaphors, and anecdotes, allowing us to comprehend the nuances of physics-gravity and light, color and shape, quarks and quasars, particles and stars, force and strength. We also come to see how the physical world is so deeply intertwined with the ways in which we think about culture, poetry, and philosophy. Cole, one of our preeminent science writers, serves as a guide into the world of such legendary scientific minds as Richard Feynman, Victor Weisskopf, brothers Frank Oppenheimer and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Philip Morrison, Vera Kistiakowsky, and Stephen Jay Gould.
Author: Cole, K. C.
Publisher: Mariner Books
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: First You Build a Cloud: And Other Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life
Pages: 00240 (Encrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2012-07-18
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780156006460
Category: Science : History
Category: Science : Physics - General
Category: Science : Philosophy & Social Aspects
For many of us, physics, like math, has always been a thing of mystery and complexity. In First You Build a Cloud, K. C. Cole provides cogent explanations through animated prose, metaphors, and anecdotes, allowing us to comprehend the nuances of physics-gravity and light, color and shape, quarks and quasars, particles and stars, force and strength. We also come to see how the physical world is so deeply intertwined with the ways in which we think about culture, poetry, and philosophy. Cole, one of our preeminent science writers, serves as a guide into the world of such legendary scientific minds as Richard Feynman, Victor Weisskopf, brothers Frank Oppenheimer and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Philip Morrison, Vera Kistiakowsky, and Stephen Jay Gould.
Author: Cole, K. C.
Publisher: Mariner Books
Illustration: n
Language: ENG
Title: First You Build a Cloud: And Other Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life
Pages: 00240 (Encrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2012-07-18
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780156006460
Category: Science : History
Category: Science : Physics - General
Category: Science : Philosophy & Social Aspects
