Synopsis
Human understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. They're not little gaps you can ignore: they're huge gaps in our basic notions of how the world works. PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to explore everything we don't know about the universe: the gaping holes in our knowledge of the cosmos.
This fully illustrated introduction to physics' greatest mysteries also helps demystify many complicated things we know, from quarks and neutrinos to gravitational waves and exploding black holes. With humor and delight, Cham and Whiteson invite us to see the universe as a possibly limitless expanse of unexplored territory that is still ours to explore.
Author: Cham, Jorge
Jorge Gabriel Cham is a cartoonist and roboticist best known for his popular newspaper and web comic Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD Comics). Cham was born in Panama, is of Chinese descent and lives in the United States, where he began drawing PhD comics as a graduate student at Stanford University. Since then, he has been published in several college journals and four book collections. He appeared on NPR on December 20, 2010.
Author: Whiteson, Daniel
Daniel Whiteson received his Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He came to the University of California in 2007, where he received the Chancellor's Award for excellence in undergraduate research. Professor Whiteson's research addresses the field of High Energy Experimental Physics. He is interested in exploring the structure of matter and the nature of its interactions on the smallest scales, in order to understand the fundamental nature of our universe.
Publisher : CAPITAN SWING S.L; No. 1 edition (17 September 2018)
Language : Spanish
Softcover : 384 pages
Product weight : 720 g
Dimensions : 20.32 x 0.38 x 25.4 cm
