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Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales of Pure Genius and Mad Science

Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales of Pure Genius and Mad Science

by JenniferOuellette (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

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Synopsis

Jennifer Ouellette skillfully blends science and popular culture to shed vibrant new light upon some of the most revolutionary scientific inventions in the history of mankind. Addams Family Values illustrate Newton's laws, Back to the Future demonstrates the finer points of special relativity, and Jeannette Winterson's novel Gut Symmetries provides an elegant metaphorical framework for string theory. By combining colourful historical details with literature, art,and music, this book proves that physics is not arcane or even very scary, but is instead an exciting and profoundly human endeavour-and a fundamental part of our everyday world.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 19 Oct 2006
ISBN 10: 1851684999
ISBN 13: 9781851684991
Book Overview: Ouellette is a master storyteller. Her entertaining tour of major advances in physics blends in popular culture with very human portraits of the scientists involved. Jonathan Wood - Editor, Materials Today and Nano Today, and 2006 FameLab winner I found Ouellette's book great fun...and learned a great deal from it too. David Bodanis - Winner of the Royal Society's 2006 Aventis Prize

Media Reviews
A solid, 5 star performer. Ouellette writes engagingly, the whole thing is great fun and has plenty of content. * PopularScience.co.uk *
Ouellette's archive of revolutionary scientific developments is big fun in bite-sized pieces. * The Times *
Author Bio
Jennifer Ouellette is a former English major and self-confessed `physics phobe'. She is associate editor of APS News, the monthly publication of The American Physical Society, and has written on topics as varied as the acoustics of Mayan pyramids and New York City subways and the precarious pitfalls of pseudoscience. Visit her Cocktail Party Physics blog at www.twistedphysics.typepad.com