The physicist's world
Subtitle: the story of motion and the limits to knowledge
By: Thomas Grissom
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore [Md.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781421400839; 9781421400846
Subjects: Physics; Popular works
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: The ancient quarrel; title: Motion; title: To be or not-to-be; title: Atoms and the void; title: Motion constrained; title: How versus why; title: Enter Newton; title: The laws of motion; title: Action at a distance; title: Matter and light; title: Heat and the arrow of time; title: Who's really moving and what's the correct time?; title: Curved space and the new gravity; title: What you see is what you get; title: A footnote on quantum gravity; title: Equations that go berserk; title: The physicist's world.