In 1939 Richard Feynman a brilliant graduate of MIT arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant A lifelong friendship & enormously productive collaboration was born despite sharp differences in personality The soft-spoken Wheeler though conservative in appearance was a raging nonconformist full of wild ideas about the universe The boisterous Feynman was a cautious physicist who believed only what could be tested Yet they were complementary spirits Their collaboration led to a complete rethinking of the nature of time & reality It enabled Feynman to show how quantum reality is a combination of alternative contradictory possibilities & inspired Wheeler to develop his landmark concept of wormholes portals to the future & past Together Feynman & Wheeler made sure that quantum physics would never be the same again ...

The twentieth century was defined by physics From the minds of the world's leading physicists there flowed a river of ideas that would transport mankind to the pinnacle of wonderment & to the very depths of human despair This was a century that began with the certainties of absolute knowledge & ended with the knowledge of absolute uncertainty It was a century in which physicists developed weapons with the capacity to destroy our reality whilst at the same time denying us the possibility that we can ever properly comprehend it Almost everything we think we know about the nature of our world comes from one theory of physics This theory was discovered & refined in the first thirty years of the twentieth century & went on to become quite simply the most successful theory of physics ever devised Its concepts underpin much of the twenty-first century technology that we have learned to take for granted But its success has come at a price for it has at the same time completely undermined our ability to make sense of the world at the level of its most fundamental constituents Rejecting the fundamental elements of uncertainty & chance implied by quantum theory Albert Einstein once famously declared that ' God does not play dice' Niels Bohr claimed that anybody who is not shocked by the theory has not understood it The charismatic American physicist Richard Feynman went further he claimed that nobody understands it This is quantum theory & this book tells its story Jim Baggott presents a celebration of this wonderful yet wholly disconcerting theory with a history told in forty episodes
- significant moments of truth or turning points in the theory's development From its birth in the porcelain furnaces used to study black body radiation in 1900 to the promise of stimulating new quantum phenomena to be revealed by CERN's Large Hadron Collider over a hundred years later this is the extraordinary story of the quantum world Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas & shaped the way we think
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Now available in paperback The Quantum Theory of Fields is a self-contained comprehensive & up-to-date introduction to quantum field theory from Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg The first volume introduces the foundations of quantum field theory the second volume examines modern applications & finally the third volume presents supersymmetry 1600 pages Weinberg Steven (University of Texas Austin) ...

Available for the first time in paperback The Quantum Theory of Fields is a self-contained comprehensive & up-to-date introduction to quantum field theory from Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg Volume I introduces the foundations of quantum field theory The development is fresh & logical throughout with each step carefully motivated by what has gone before After a brief historical outline the book begins with the principles of relativity & quantum mechanics & the properties of particles that follow Quantum field theory emerges from this as a natural consequence The classic calculations of quantum electrodynamics are presented in a thoroughly modern way showing the use of path integrals & dimensional regularization It contains much original material & is peppered with examples & insights drawn from the author's experience as a leader of elementary particle research Exercises are included at the end of each chapter ...

The Quantum Thief is a dazzling hard SF novel set in the solar system of the far future
- a heist novel peopled by bizarre post-humans
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When Martha accepts a place at university her decision is met with a mixture of hostility & pride by her uncomprehending family This is the story of a young woman's journey to maturity & independence struggling to cope with the intellectual & emotional challenges that surround her at a time when such space was rarely given freely to women In The Quarry Wood Nan Shepherd's subtle prose is matched with intense & memorable descriptions of the natural world & a dry sense of humour Ninety years after the first publication it remains as fresh & original today ...

The Royals they're just like us The Queen & I is a hilarious satire on modern Britain & an exploration of what it really means to be human by the bestselling author of the Adrian Mole series THE MONARCHY HAS BEEN DISMANTLEDWhen a Republican party wins the General Election their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets & titles & send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close (as the locals dub it) caviar for boiled eggs servants for a social worker named Trish the Queen & her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed But is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else? Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades' No other author could imagine this so graphically demolish the institution so wittily & yet leave the family with its human dignity intact' The Times' Absorbing entertaining the funniest thing in print since Adrian Mole' Ruth Rendell Daily Telegraph' Kept me rolling about until the last page' Daily Mail Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 5534) Number Ten Ghost Children The Queen & I Queen Camilla & The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year all of which are highly acclaimed bestsellers She has also written numerous well-received plays She lives in Leicester where she was born & grew up ...

On the morning of 20th June 1837 an eighteen-year-old girl is called from her bed to be told that she is Queen of England The Victorian age has begun The young queen's first few years are beset with court scandal & malicious gossip there is the unsavoury Flora Hastings affair a source of extreme embarrassment to the queen; the eternal conflict between Victoria & her mother & the young queen's hatred of Sir John Conroy her mother's close friend Then there is the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne
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- worldly cynic & constant companion to the queen himself a veteran of many a latter-day scandal He proves to be her guiding light
- until the dashing Prince Albert appears & she falls hopelessly in love


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The pieces are easy to connect to each other No glue no scissors 155 puzzle pieces 48 x 15 x 43 cm Assembly time 3h Instructions included ...

Only one woman can stop the world from descending into endless war in the thrilling new series in the world of the Gas-Lit Empire The year is 2012 The nations of the world are bound together in an alliance of collective security overseen by the International Patent Office & its ruthless stranglehold on technology When airships start disappearing in the middle of the Atlantic the Patent Office is desperate to discover what has happened Forbidden to operate beyond the territorial waters of member nations they send spies to investigate in secret One of those spies is Elizabeth Barnabus She must overcome her dislike of the controlling Patent Office disguise herself as a man & take to the sea in search of the floating nation of pirates who threaten the world order File Under Fantasy A Lost Airship On the Sargasso Stowaway Bay The Crow Queen ...