Physics of Star Trek.
Title:
Physics of Star Trek.
Author:
Krauss, Lawrence M.
ISBN:
9780465008636
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- FOREWORD by Stephen Hawking -- PREFACE -- PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION -- SECTION ONE A COSMIC POKER GAME -- 1 Newton Antes -- 2 Einstein Raises -- 3 Hawking Shows His Hand -- 4 Data Ends the Game -- SECTION TWO MATTER MATTER EVERYWHERE -- 5 Atoms or Bits -- 6 The Most Bang for Your Buck -- 7 Holodecks and Holograms -- SECTION THREE THE INVISIBLE UNIVERSE,OR THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT -- 8 The Search for Spock -- 9 The Menagerie of Possibilities -- 10 Impossibilities: The Undiscoverable Country -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR 251.
Abstract:
Lawrence M. Krauss is Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics at Case Western Reserve University. He is the only physicist to have received the top awards by the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Physics, and the American Association of Physics Teachers. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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