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Title: THE QUEST FOR UNITY
THE ADVENTURE OF PHYSICS
By: Etienne Klein, Marc Lachieze-Rey, Axel Reisinger (Trans)
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 019512085X
ISBN 13: 9780195120851
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
Pub. date: 13 May, 1999
Pages: 176
Translated from: French
Description: Quantum physicist Etienne Klein and astrophysicist Marc Lachieze-Rey present and comment on the successive unifications that have marked the fundamental advances in physics from Newton's theory of gravitation unifying celestial and terrestrial mechanics, through Faraday and Maxwell's unification of electromagnetism and the unification of electromagnetism with the weak nuclear force by Salam, Weinberg and Glashow to the current search for a theory of quantumgravitation that would bring about the unification of all known forces in a theory of everything. A good deal of modern theoretical physics is lightly and gracefully explained, rooted in a philosophical examination of the motivations that drive physicists and physics. The book is a rather poetic discourse onthe nature of elegance and beauty in physics, seeking to explain how and why beauty is a reliable guide in the ongoing search for Truth in physics.
Synopsis: Quantum physicist Etienne Klein and astrophysicist Marc Lachieze-Rey present and comment on the successive unifications that have marked the fundamental advances in physics. A good deal of modern theoretical physics is lightly and gracefully explained, rooted in a philosophical examination of the motivations that drive physicists and physics. The book is a discourse on the nature of elegance and beauty in physics, seeking to explain how and why beauty is a reliable guide in the ongoing search for Truth in physics.
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Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
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