- Editorial:
- DA CAPO PRESS/PLENUM PUB.CORP.
- Año de edición:
- 2010
- Materia
- Science/social sciences
- ISBN:
- 978-0-306-81911-7
- Encuadernación:
- paperback
WHY DOES E=MC2?
(AND WHY SHOULD WE CARE?)
COX, BRIAN
What does E=mc2 actually mean? Dr. Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of twenty-first century science to unpack Einstein's famous equation. Explaining and simplifying notions of energy, mass, and light-while exploding commonly held misconceptions-they demonstrate how the structure of nature itself is contained within this equation.
Along the way, we visit the site of one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted: the now-famous Large Hadron Collider, a gigantic particle accelerator capable of re-creating conditions that existed fractions of a second after the Big Bang.A collaboration between one of the youngest professors in the United Kingdom and a distinguished popular physicist, Why Does E=mc2? is one of the most exciting and accessible explanations of the theory of relativity.