Invisible Worlds: Exploring the Unseen

Bizony, Piers

ISBN 10: 0297843427 / ISBN 13: 9780297843429

Published by London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004

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Original black boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, coloured endpapers, numerous (full page) colour illustrations, 4to.

Seller Inventory # 364098-KG11

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Invisible Worlds: Exploring the Unseen
• Publisher: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297843427
• ISBN 13: 9780297843429
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

What we see, even on the brightest summer's day, is only a fraction of what is really there. But we have been inventing new ways of seeing, delving ever deeper into the invisible world, for more then a century now. We can now 'see' heat, sound and all manner of exotic energies and radiations. We can look deep into our minds and witness fleeting thoughts. We can look back in time to the dawn of the universe and we can even see the particles that we think might be the fundamental building blocks of reality. And computer simulations powered by 21st-century mathematics are hinting that there are still greater truths to be glimpsed beyond the clumsy realms of light and matter. With over 100 incredible images that take us from inside the atom to the edge of our universe and beyond, this book explores our journey into worlds inaccessible to our natural senses.

About the Author

Dr Jim al-Khalili is a theoretical physicist and senior lecturer in the Department of Physics at the University of Surrey. He has twice been nominated for the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award for the Public Understanding of Science and is the Institute of Physics Schools and Colleges lecturer. He is the author of BLACK HOLES, WORMHOLES AND TIME MACHINES and has appeared on Radio 4's LEADING EDGE and the BBC's TOMORROW'S WORLD and HORIZON programmes. Piers Bizony is a science writer and television producer. He is a regular contributor to FOCUS magazine, THE INDEPENDENT, the EVENING STANDARD and WIRED. He is the author of five previous books on film and space. Dr Jim Al-Khalili is a theoretical physicist at the University of Surrey. He has twice been nominated for the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award for the Public Understanding of Science and is the Institute of Physics Schools and Colleges lecturer. He is the author of the acclaimed BLACK HOLES, WORMHOLES AND TIME MACHINES and QUANTUM.