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The universe in the rearview mirror : how hidden symmetries shape reality

Goldberg, Dave, 1974-

2013, eBook , 1 online resource

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Publication information:	New York, New York : Dutton, 2013.
ISBN:	9781101624296 (electronic bk.)
Language:	English
Record ID:	3064358
Variant Title:	Universe in the rear view mirror
Format:	eBook
Physical description:	1 online resource
Date acquired:	January 2, 2014
More creator details:	Dave Goldberg.
General note:	Electronic book.
Contents note:	Introduction: In which I set everything up, so it's probably best not to skip ahead -- Antimatter : in which we learn why there is something rather than nothing -- Entropy : in which we explore where time comes from or whether it just is -- The cosmological principle : in which we learn why it is dark at night -- Emmy Noether : in which we determine what symmetry really means -- Relativity : in which we fail to build an intergalactic ansible -- Gravity : in which we learn why black holes don't last forever -- Replacement : in which we consider the design specifications for a teleportation device -- Spin : in which we investigate why you aren't a sentient cloud of helium and what a spoonful of neutron star would do to you -- Higgs : in which we explore the origin of mass and why physics isn't stamp collecting -- Hidden symmetries : in which objects in the mirror are closer than they appear -- Appendix -- Roadside attraction 1: The particle zoo -- Roadside attraction 2: A side of symmetrie.
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