E = mc2. A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation (Gebundene Ausgabe)

E = mc2. A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation (Gebundene Ausgabe)
von David Bodanis

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A study of what is perhaps the best-known scientific equation ever, looking at how it was developed, its use over the course of the twentieth century, and how our lives have been revolutionised by its applications. 20 b/w illus.-- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe:Taschenbuch

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E = mc2. Just about everyone has at least heard of Albert Einstein's formulation of 1905, which came into the world as something of an afterthought, but far fewer can explain his insightful linkage of energy to mass. David Bodanis offers an easily grasped gloss on the equation: mass, he writes, "is simply the ultimate type of condensed or concentrated energy," whereas energy "is what billows out as an alternate form of mass under the right circumstances."

Just what those circumstances are occupies much of Bodanis's book, which pays homage to Einstein and, just as important, to predecessors such as Maxwell, Faraday, and Lavoisier, who are less well known than Einstein today. Balancing writerly energy and scholarly weight, Bodanis offers a primer in modern physics and cosmology, explaining that the universe today is an expression of mass that will, in some vastly distant future, one day slide back to the energy side of the equation, replacing the "dominion of matter" with "a great stillness"--a vision that is at once lovely and profoundly frightening.

Without sliding into easy psychobiography, Bodanis explores other circumstances as well: namely, Einstein's background and character, which combined with a sterling intelligence to afford him an idiosyncratic view of the way things work--and a view that would change the world.--Gregory McNamee

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