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Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide
Quantum theory is one of science’s most thrilling, challenging and even mysterious areas. Scientists such as Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrödinger uncovered bizarre paradoxes in the early 20th century that seemed to destroy the fundamental assumptions of ‘classical physics’ – the basic laws we are taught in school.
At the sub-atomic level, one particle seems to know what the others are doing, and according to Heisenberg’s ‘uncertainty principle’, there is a limit on how accurately nature can be observed. And yet quantum theory explanations are amazingly accurate and...
Relativity: A Graphic Guide
What did Einstein mean by E=mc2?
How is a black hole formed?
What use is a fourth dimension?
It is now almost a century since Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity revolutionised our view of the universe. Famously complex, Einstein’s brilliant mathematics and physics are nonetheless magnificent, compelling descriptions of how our world works, and have been – with quantum theory – one of the two key strands of physics’ last 100 years.
This graphic guide to relativity plots a thrilling, visually accessible course through Einstein’s astounding vision of gravity as the...