Overview
¿Qué sintieron los grandes científicos de la historia en el momento en que alcanzaron sus grandes descubrimientos? ¿Cómo llegaron al instante mágico en el que sus predicciones se hicieron realidad?
Este increíble viaje de la predicción a la prueba nos transporta desde laboratorios ubicados en París y Cambridge hasta el frente ruso devastado por la guerra, pasando por búnkeres construidos bajo reactores nucleares y enormes túneles subterráeos en la frontera suizo-francesa. Desde el electromagnetismo hasta las ondas gravitacionales de Einstein y el escurridizo neutrino de Wolfgang Pauli, el aclamado escritor y científico Marcus Chown nos acompaña en un recorrido impresionante por los avances de la física moderna, deteniéndose en ese instante mágico en el que las matemáticas y la física, de la mano de sus más brillantes representantes, cambiaron para siempre la historia de la ciencia.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Marcus Chown rocks!' Brian May
How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one has ever known before? And why is mathematics so magically good at revealing nature's secrets?
This is the story of the magicians: the scientists who, using mathematics, predicted the existence of unknown planets, black holes, invisible force fields, ripples in the fabric of space-time, unsuspected subatomic particles, and even antimatter.
The journey from prediction to proof transports us from seats of learning in Paris and Cambridge to the war-torn Russian front, to bunkers beneath nuclear reactors, observatories in Berlin and California, and huge tunnels under the Swiss-French border. From electromagnetism to Einstein's gravitational waves to Wolfgang Pauli's elusive neutrino, acclaimed science writer Marcus Chown takes us on a breathtaking, mind-altering tour of the major breakthroughs of modern physics and highlights science's central mystery: its astonishing predictive power.
Praise for Marcus Chown:
'What good popular science writing is all about.' Jim Al-Khalili
'Pretty wonderful.' Richard Dawkins
'Entertaining and at times mind-boggling.' The Times
This book title, El Instante mágico: Los diez descubrimientos asombrosos que cambiaron la histori a de la ciencia / The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle..., ISBN: 9788418187957, by Marcus Chown, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (September 21, 2021) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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