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Summary: In his bestselling E=mc2, David Bodanis led us, with astonishing ease, through the world's most famous equation. Now, in Electric Universe, he illuminates the wondrous yet invisible force that permeates our universe and introduces us to the virtuoso scientists who plumbed its secrets. For centuries, electricity was seen as little more than a curious property of certain substances that sparked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2005
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Contents: Part 1 - Birth -- Bern patent office, 1905 -- Part 2 - Ancestors of E=mc[squared] -- E is for energy -- = -- m is for mass -- c is for celeritas -- 2[hacek(caron)] -- Part 3 - The early years -- Einstein and the equation -- Into the atom -- Quiet in the midday snow -- Part 4 - Adulthood -- Germany's turn -- Norway -- America's turn -- 8:16 a.m. - over Japan -- Part 5 - Till the end of time --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.11 BODBodanis, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006