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The Motion Paradox: The 2,500-Year Old Puzzle Behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space
de Mazur, Joseph
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- First
- Estado
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0525949925
- ISBN 13
- 9780525949923
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Sobre este artículo
Dutton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 9780525949923 . Stiff unmarked book in crisp dust jacket. ; 1.1 x 8.35 x 5.67 Inches; 272 pages .
Sinopsis
The epic tale of an ancient, unsolved puzzle and how it relates to all scientific attempts to explain the basic structure of the universe At the dawn of science the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno formulated his paradox of motion, and amazingly, it is still on the cutting edge of all investigations into the fabric of reality. Zeno used logic to argue that motion is impossible, and at the heart of his maddening puzzle is the nature of space and time. Is space-time continuous or broken up like a string of beads? Over the past two millennia, many of our greatest minds—including Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and other current theoreticians—have been gripped by the mystery this puzzle represents. Joseph Mazur, acclaimed author of Euclid in the Rainforest , shows how historic breakthroughs in our understanding of motion shed light on Zeno’s paradox. The orbits of the planets were explained, the laws of motion were revealed, the theory of relativity was discovered—but the basic structure of time and space remained elusive. In the tradition of Fermat’s Enigma and Zero, The Motion Paradox is a lively history of this apparently simple puzzle whose solution—if indeed it can be solved—will reveal nothing less than the fundamental nature of reality.
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- B-Line Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
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- Título
- The Motion Paradox: The 2,500-Year Old Puzzle Behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space
- Autor
- Mazur, Joseph
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0525949925
- ISBN 13
- 9780525949923
- Editorial
- Dutton
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2007
- Palabras clave
- 9780525949923
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Science/Technology;
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