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Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics (Record no. 1560)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780552778060
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 530
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Personal name Al-Khalili, Jim
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Title Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Transworld Publishers Ltd;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 25 Apr 2013
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 304 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. This book is about my own personal favourite puzzles and conundrums in science, all of which have famously been referred to as paradoxes, but which turn out not to be paradoxes at all when considered carefully and viewed from the right angle. A true paradox is a statement that leads to a circular and self-contradictory argument, or one that describes a logically impossible situation. Our subject is 'perceived paradoxes' - questions or thought-experiments that on first encounter seem impossible to answer, but which science has been able to solve. Our tour of these mind-expanding puzzles will take us through some of the greatest hits of science - from Einstein's theories about space and time, to the latest ideas of how the quantum world works. Some of our paradoxes may be familiar, such as Schrodinger's famous cat, which is seemingly alive and dead at the same time; or the Grandfather Paradox - if you travelled back in time and killed your grandfather you would not have been born and would not therefore have killed your grandfather. Other paradoxes will be new to you, but no less bizarre and fascinating. We will ask such questions as: how does the fact that it gets dark at night prove the Universe must have started with a big bang? Where are all the aliens? And why does the length of a piece of string vary depending on how fast it is moving? In resolving our paradoxes we will have to travel to the furthest reaches of the Universe and explore the very essence of space and time. Hold on tight.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Physics
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Popular science
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi Science 05/05/2016 8 8 530 PKLC006710 19/05/2023 19/05/2023 28/06/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 09/06/2023
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Science 05/05/2016 3 3 530 PKLC001302 26/01/2020 05/01/2019 05/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17