Book
The universe in the rearview mirror: how hidden symmetries shape reality
2014
Abstract
Physicist Dave Goldberg speeds across space, time, and everything in between, showing that our elegant universe - from the Higgs boston to antimatter to the most massive group of galaxies - is shaped by hidden symmetries that have driven all our recent discoveries about the universe and all the ones to come. Why is the sky dark at night If there is antimatter, can there be antipeople? Why are past, present, and future our only options? Saluting the brillant but unsung female mathematician Emmy Noether as well as other giants of physics, Goldberg answers these questions and more, exuberantly demonstrating that symmetry is the big idea - and the key to what lies ahead.
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Details
- Title
- The universe in the rearview mirror
- Creators
- Dave Goldberg - Drexel University, Physics
- Publisher
- Plume; New York, New York
- Number of pages
- 352
- Resource Type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Identifiers
- 0142181048; 9780142181041; 0525953663; 9780525953661; 991021906513104721