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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Einstein's Fridge tells the incredible epic story of the scientists who, over two centuries, harnessed the power of heat and ice and formulated a theory essential to comprehending our universe. Thermodynamics-the branch of physics that deals with energy and entropy-is the least known and yet most consequential of all the sciences. It governs everything from the behavior of living cells to the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Not only that,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author of The End of Time challenges applications of the second law of thermodynamics to posit that the big bang was a minimal-order point that may have triggered a flow of time in two directions.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And if you trace the evolutionary history of plants and animals back far enough, you will find that, at some point, neither were we. Scientists have wrestled with this problem for centuries, and no one has been able to offer a credible theory. But in 2013, at just 30 years old, biophysicist Jeremy England published a paper that has utterly upended the ongoing study of life's origins. In Every...
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