Eclipses
- 168pagine
- 6 ore di lettura
100 questions about eclipses-each answered succinctly to create a comprehensive description of the wonder of this natural phenomena.
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Frank Close è noto non solo per la sua ricerca scientifica, ma anche per le sue conferenze e i suoi scritti che rendono la scienza accessibile a un pubblico più vasto. Il suo lavoro si concentra nel rendere concetti scientifici complessi comprensibili e coinvolgenti. Attraverso i suoi testi e le sue presentazioni, condivide la sua passione per la scoperta scientifica, ispirando lettori e ascoltatori. Il suo approccio è caratterizzato da chiarezza ed eleganza, attirando efficacemente l'attenzione sugli aspetti affascinanti della scienza.
- 2019
- 2017
Theories of Everything: Ideas in Profile
- 128pagine
- 5 ore di lettura
The clearest account ever of theories of everything now and in the past
- 2013
The Infinity Puzzle
- 432pagine
- 16 ore di lettura
Forty years ago, three physicists - Peter Higgs, Gerard 't Hooft, and James Bjorken - made the spectacular breakthroughs that led to the world's largest experiment, CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Against a backdrop of high politics and billion dollar budgets, this is the story of their work, the quest for the Higgs boson, and its eventual discovery.
- 2012
Neutrinos are as near to nothing as anything we know, and so elusive that they are almost invisible. Frank Close tells the story of the neutrino, explaining their growing significance, and looking at how neutrino astronomy is at the threshold of enabling us to look into distant galaxies and to finding echoes of the Big Bang.
- 2009
Nothing: A Very Short Introduction
- 157pagine
- 6 ore di lettura
What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and history of the elusive void: from Aristotle's theories to black holes and quantum particles, and why the latest discoveries about the vacuum tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos.
