(Ebook) Motion Mountain: The Adventure of Physics – Vol. IV: The Quantum of Change by Christoph Schiller

(Ebook) Motion Mountain: The Adventure of Physics – Vol. IV: The Quantum of Change by Christoph Schiller

How can we see single photons?How do colours appear in nature?What does ‘quantum’ mean?What are the dangers of a can of beans?Why are Gulliver’s travels impossible?Is the vacuum empty?What is the origin of decay?Why is nature random?Do perfect copying machines exist?Answering these and other questions on motion, this series gives an entertaining and mind-twisting introduction into modern physics – one that is surprising and challenging on every page. Starting from everyday life, the adventure provides an overview of modern results in mechanics, heat, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum physics and unification.Christoph Schiller, PhD Université Libre de Bruxelles, is a physicist and physics popularizer. He wrote this book for his children and for all students, teachers and readers interested in physics, the science of motion.