Jim Al-Khalili

Paradox

The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

or the Grandfather Paradox - if you travelled back in time and killed your grandfather you would not have been born and would not therefore have killed your grandfather.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 214g
• ISBN-13: 9780552778060
• ISBN-10: 0552778060
• Artikelnr.: 36917972

Autorenporträt

Professor Jim Al-Khalili

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
1 The Game Show Paradox
2 Achilles and the Tortoise
3 Olbers’ Paradox
4 Maxwell’s Demon
5 The Pole in the Barn Paradox
6 The Paradox of the Twins
7 The Grandfather Paradox
8 The Paradox of Laplace’s Demon
9 The Paradox of Schrödinger’s Cat
10 Fermi’s Paradox
11 Remaining Questions
Acknowledgments
Index