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The physicist's world : the story of motion and the limits to knowledge
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- Creator
- Thomas Grissom
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baltimore [Md.] : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011
- Physical Details
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- xii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781421400839, 1421400839, 9781421400846, 1421400847
- OCLC
- ocn692084742
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction -- Motion -- To be or not-to-be -- Atoms and the void -- Motion constrained -- How vs. why -- Enter Newton -- The laws of motion -- Action at a distance -- Matter and light -- Heat and the arrow of time -- Who's really moving and what's the correct time? -- Curved space : the new gravity -- What you see is what you get -- A footnote : quantum gravity -- Equations that go berserk -- The physicist's world