The Oringin of Species
Charles Darwin
Few other books have created such a lasting storm of controversy as The Origin of Species. Darwin’s theory that species derive from other species by a gradual evolutionary process and that the average level of each species is heightened by the “survival of the fittest” stirred up popular debate to fever pitch. Its acceptance revolutionized the course of science.
As Sir Julian Huxley, the noted biologist, points out in his illuminating introduction, the importance of Darwin’s contribution to modern scientific knowledge is almost impossible to evaluate: “a truly great book, one which can still be read with profit by professional biologist.” |
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About Time
by Paul Davies
The eternal questions of science and religion were profoundly recast by Einstein's theory of relativity and its implications that time can be warped by motion and gravitation, and that it cannot be meaningfully divided into past, present, and future. In About Time, Paul Davies discusses the big bang theory, chaos theory, and the recent discovery that the universe appears to be younger than some of the objects in it, concluding that Einstein's theory provides only an incomplete understanding of the nature of time. Davies explores unanswered questions such as: * Does the universe have a beginning and an end? * Is the passage of time merely an illusion? * Is it possible to travel backward -- or forward -- in time? About Time weaves physics and metaphysics in a provocative contemplation of time and the universe. |
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Superforce
The Search for a Grand Unified Theory of Nature
by Paul Davies
The Search for a Grand Unified Theory of Nature
by Paul Davies
Matter and Antimatter
by Maurice Duquesne
An authoritative and lucid account of the discovery of antimatter, with discussion of its implications and possibilities. Professor Duquesne shows briefly why classical mechanics had to give way to the relativity theory, and then considers the relations between the ideas of relativity and those of quantum mechanics
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