Theories of everything
Close, F. E.2017
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Theories of everything, Frank Close argues, can be described as those which draw on all relevant branches of knowledge to explain everything known about the universe. Such accounts may reign supreme for centuries. Then, often as a result of the advances they themselves have enabled, a new discovery is made which the current theory cannot explain. A new theory is needed which inspiration, sometimes, supplies. Moving from Isaac Newton's work on gravity and motion in the seventeenth century to thermodynamics and James Clerk Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism in the nineteenth to Max Planck's and Paul Dirac's quantum physics in the twentieth, Professor Close turns finally to contemporary physics and the power and limitations of the current theory of everything.
Main title:
Theories of everything / Frank Close.
Author:
Close, F. E., author
Imprint:
London : Profile Books, 2017.
Collation:
160 pages ; 20 cm.
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ISBN:
9781781257517 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
530.1
Language:
English
BRN:
248021