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A Beginner's Guide to Reality by Jim Baggott
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07A Beginner's Guide to Reality is an introduction to philosophy for people who don't read philosophy. Jim Baggott's sources range from Aristotle to The Matrix. He examines the major developments in... -
The Quantum Story: A history in 40 moments by Jim Baggott
RRP: $30.21Booksplease Price: $19.48The twentieth century was defined by physics. From the minds of the world's leading physicists there flowed a river of ideas that would transport mankind to the pinnacle of wonderment and to the very... -
The Quantum Story: A history in 40 moments by Jim Baggott 9780199566846
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $34.94The twentieth century was defined by physics. From the minds of the world's leading physicists there flowed a river of ideas that would transport mankind to the pinnacle of wonderment and to the very... -
Discordance: The Troubled History of the Hubble Constant Jim Baggott 9780192864062
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.28The troubled history of the Hubble constant told in an authoritative, comprehensible, and entertaining manner In 1927 Georges Lemaitre argued that our universe is expanding, a conclusion rendered... -
Higgs: The invention and discovery of the 'God Particle' by Jim Baggott 9780199679577
RRP: $24.36Booksplease Price: $19.07The hunt for the Higgs particle has involved the biggest, most expensive experiment ever. So exactly what is this particle? Why does it matter so much? What does it tell us about the Universe? Did... -
The Quantum Cookbook: Mathematical Recipes of the Foundations for Quantum Mechanics by Jim Baggott
Booksplease Price: $138.35Quantum mechanics is an extraordinarily successful scientific theory. But it is also completely mad. Although the theory quite obviously works, it leaves us chasing ghosts and phantoms; particles... -
The Quantum Cookbook: Mathematical Recipes of the Foundations for Quantum Mechanics by Jim Baggott 9780198827863
Booksplease Price: $65.52Quantum mechanics is an extraordinarily successful scientific theory. But it is also completely mad. Although the theory quite obviously works, it leaves us chasing ghosts and phantoms; particles... -
The Meaning of Quantum Theory: A Guide for Students of Chemistry and Physics by Jim Baggott 9780198555759
Booksplease Price: $178.78In this book the author looks at the continuing debate about the meaning of quantum theory. The historical development of the theory is traced from the turn of the century through to the 1930's, and... -
Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation Jim Baggott (Freelance science writer) 9780198826002
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $33.75What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? How and why do we think? What does... -
Beyond Measure: Modern Physics, Philosophy and the Meaning of Quantum Theory by Jim Baggott 9780198525363
Booksplease Price: $171.62Quantum theory is one of the most important and successful theories of modern physical science. A fact all the more remarkable because quatum theory is a theory that few understand. Most academic... -
Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields by Jim Baggott
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $38.98Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We... -
Quantum Reality: The Quest for the Real Meaning of Quantum Mechanics - a Game of Theories by Jim Baggott
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $39.60Quantum mechanics is an extraordinarily successful scientific theory. It is also completely mad. Although the theory quite obviously works, it leaves us chasing ghosts and phantoms; particles that... -
Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe by Jim Baggott
RRP: $26.31Booksplease Price: $20.40Combining clear discussions of both quantum theory and general relativity, this book offers one of the first efforts to explain the new quantum theory of space and time. Today we are blessed with... -
Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement by Dr Jim Baggott 9780192846112
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.07The definitive account of the great Bohr-Einstein debate and its continuing legacy. In 1927, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein began a debate about the interpretation and meaning of the new quantum... -
Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement by Dr Jim Baggott 9780192846105
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.22The definitive account of the great Bohr-Einstein debate and its continuing legacy In 1927, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein began a debate about the interpretation and meaning of the new quantum... -
Farewell to Reality: How Fairytale Physics Betrays the Search for Scientific Truth by Jim Baggott 9781780334929
Booksplease Price: $40.37Modern physics is heady stuff. It seems that barely a week goes by without some new astounding science story; some revelation about hidden dimensions, multiple universes, the holographic principle or... -
Mass: The quest to understand matter from Greek atoms to quantum fields by Jim Baggott 9780198759720
RRP: $26.31Booksplease Price: $20.40Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We... -
Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth by Jim Baggott 9781605985749
RRP: $40.85Booksplease Price: $35.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605985749Author Jim BaggottFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe by Jim Baggott 9780198809111
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $40.19Today we are blessed with two extraordinarily successful theories of physics. The first is Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which describes the large-scale behaviour of matter in a... -
In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years by Sir Karl Popper 9780415135481
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40'I want to begin by declaring that I regard scientific knowledge as the most important kind of knowledge we have', writes Sir Karl Popper in the opening essay of this book, which collects his... -
The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics by Heinrich Päs
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $26.42In The One, particle physicist Heinrich Pas presents a bold idea: fundamentally, everything in the universe is an aspect of one unified whole.This idea, called monism, has a rich 3,000-year history:... -
The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics by Heinrich Päs 9781837730308
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.75In The One, particle physicist Heinrich Pas presents a bold idea: fundamentally, everything in the universe is an aspect of one unified whole.This idea, called monism, has a rich 3,000-year history:... -
Time: The Dream of Killing Chronos Guido Tonelli 9781509571598
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.74What is time? Does it exist? Can it be stopped? Can time's arrow be reversed? Can we ever free ourselves from the seemingly inexorable flow of time? Chronos is a mystery, and not only for us: it was... -
Escape From Shadow Physics: Quantum Theory, Quantum Reality and the Next Scientific Revolution Adam Forrest Kay 9781399609609
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06The received wisdom in quantum physics is that, at the deepest levels of reality, there are no actual causes for atomic events. This idea led to the outlandish belief that quantum objects - indeed,... -
Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began by Guido Tonelli
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43'Mind-inflating' Wired 'A grand vision of the marvels we've discovered, and the immensity of what we still don't understand' Sunday Times What if the ancient Greeks were right, and the universe... -
A Tale of Two Infinities: Gravitational Waves and the Quantum Origin of the Universe's Biggest Mysteries by Gianfranco Bertone 9780192898159
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $41.42'An incredible tour of our universe's greatest mysteries' Professor Dan Hooper This cutting-edge book investigates the extraordinary potential of multimessenger astronomy to revolutionise our... -
Escape From Shadow Physics: Quantum Theory, Quantum Reality and the Next Scientific Revolution by Adam Forrest Kay 9781399609586
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $36.95'A LANDMARK IN THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS' - Jean BricmontThe received wisdom in quantum physics is that, at the deepest levels of reality, there are no actual causes for atomic events...