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What does E=mc² actually mean? Professors Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of twenty-first-century science to unpack Einstein's famous equation. Explaining and simplifying notions of energy, mass, and light - while exploding commonly held misconceptions - they demonstrate how the structure of nature itself is contained within this equation. Along the way, we visit the site of one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted: the now-famous Large Hadron Collider, a gigantic particle accelerator capable of recreating conditions that existed fractions of a second after the Big Bang.A collaboration between one of the youngest professors in the United Kingdom and a distinguished popular physicist, "Why Does E=mc²?" is one of the most exciting and accessible explanations of the theory of relativity.
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Why Does E=mc²?, Brian Cox, J. R. Jeffrey Robert Forshaw
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- Released
- 2009
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- Title
- Why Does E=mc²?
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 264
- ISBN10
- 0306817586
- ISBN13
- 9780306817588
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Science & Math, Natural sciences, Science, Mathematics, Physics, Space, Astronomy, Energy, Experiments (Science), Astrophysics, Albert Einstein, Metaphors, Matter, Isaac Newton
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- What does E=mc² actually mean? Professors Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of twenty-first-century science to unpack Einstein's famous equation. Explaining and simplifying notions of energy, mass, and light - while exploding commonly held misconceptions - they demonstrate how the structure of nature itself is contained within this equation. Along the way, we visit the site of one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted: the now-famous Large Hadron Collider, a gigantic particle accelerator capable of recreating conditions that existed fractions of a second after the Big Bang.A collaboration between one of the youngest professors in the United Kingdom and a distinguished popular physicist, "Why Does E=mc²?" is one of the most exciting and accessible explanations of the theory of relativity.