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Show full pageThe Universe : a challenge to the mind / Jacques Vanier.
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- Author/Creator:
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Vanier, Jacques, 1934-
- Language:
- English
- Imprint:
- London : Imperial College Press ; Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific, c2011.
- Format:
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- Book
- xv, 516 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
- Bibliography:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-497) and index.
- Contents:
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- Introduction
- The Universe landscape
- Space, time, motion
- Conservatism and the Universe
- There is light and we see!
- A provocative theory : quantum physics and its use to improve our well being
- Elementary particles and the atomic nucleus
- Reflections on interactions, forces, acceleration, mass
- Where does it all come from? Where is it going?
- Some last reflections.
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- ISBN:
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9781848166011
184816601X
9781848166028
1848166028
- Catkey: 9198933
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