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Physics on the fringe : smoke rings, circlons, and alternative theories of everything
- Title
- Physics on the fringe : smoke rings, circlons, and alternative theories of everything / Margaret Wertheim.
- Author
- Wertheim, Margaret.
- Publication
- New York : Walker & Co., 2011.
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Details
- Description
- x, 323 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 22 cm
- Summary
- Centuries ago, natural philosophers puzzled out the laws of nature using the tools of observation and experimentation. Today, theoretical physics has become mathematically inscrutable, accessible only to an elite few. In rejecting this abstraction, outsider theorists insist that nature speaks a language we can all understand. Through a profoundly human profile of Jim Carter, Wertheim's exploration of the bizarre world of fringe physics challenges our conception of what science is, how it works, and who it is for. Jim Carter, the Einstein of outsiders, has developed his own complete theory of matter and energy and gravity that he demonstrates with experiments in his backyard'-with garbage cans and a disco fog machine he makes smoke rings to test his ideas about atoms.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-314) and index.
- Contents
- A trailer park owner imagines the world -- Outsider science. Under the hood of the universe ; Counterpart universes "excisting" ; 'A budget of paradoxes' -- Jim's world. There's diggers, and there's everyone else ; The four sexes ; Circlon science ; Smoke rings ; Creating the world ; Gravity and levity -- Sciences of imaginary solutions. A reformation of science? ; Swimming physicists ; Tree rings.
- Call Number
- JSD 15-42
- ISBN
- 9780802715135 (hc. : alk. paper)
- 0802715133 (hc. : alk. paper)
- OCLC
- 757730904
- Author
- Wertheim, Margaret.
- Title
- Physics on the fringe : smoke rings, circlons, and alternative theories of everything / Margaret Wertheim.
- Imprint
- New York : Walker & Co., 2011.
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-314) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JSD 15-42