Description
About the Author
Tim Smith is a Research Professor at Dartmouth College where he teaches Physics and Environmental Studies. Before then he was a Research Scientist at the MIT accelerator where he spent a decade as part of a team building an experiment to measure the arrangement of quarks inside of neutrons and protons. He has written magazine articles about neutrons, wind power and hiking. In this book he gets to explore all that and much more.
Reviews
Smith's book "How Big is Big and How Small is Small " is a most enjoyable read, erudite and entertaining. You can learn a great deal not just about how and why we measure things the way we do, but also what limits the sizes of the smallest and largest animals as well as the smallest and largest objects in the Universe. It also puts our human lives into (a Cosmic) perspective. I highly recommend it. * Vlatko Vedral, Professor of Quantum Information Theory at the University of Oxford and the National University of Singapore *
This little book is packed with ideas and facts about the sizes of things in the physical world [...] it will interest general readers as well as scientists looking for a different slant on the story of physics. * Choice *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199681198
Author Timothy Paul Smith
Format Hardback
Page Count 266
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 450g
Dimensions(mm) 225mm * 153mm * 21mm