Hakim Joy. The Story of Science, Book 3: Einstein Adds a New Dimension

Smithsonian Books, 2007. — 480 p. — ISBN 9781588345271, 1588345270.In the three-book The Story of Science series, master storyteller Joy Hakim narrates the evolution of scientific thought from ancient times to the present. With lively, character-driven narrative, Hakim spotlights the achievements of some of the world's greatest scientists and encourages a similiar spirit of inquiry in readers. The books include hundreds of color photographs, charts, maps, and diagrams; informative sidebars; suggestions for further reading; and excerpts from the writings of great scientist.
In volume three, students will look over Albert Einstein's shoulder as he and his colleagues develop a new kind of physics. It leads in two directions: to knowledge of the vast universe and its future (insights build on Einstein's theories of relativity), and to an understanding of the astonishingly small subatomic world (the realm of quantum physics). Students will learn why relativity and quantum theory revolutionized our world and led to the most important ideas in modern science, maybe of all time.In the three-book The Story of Science series, master storyteller Joy Hakim narrates the evolution of scientific thought from ancient times to the present. With lively, character-driven narrative, Hakim spotlights the achievements of some of the world's greatest scientists and encourages a similiar spirit of inquiry in readers. The books include hundreds of color photographs, charts, maps, and diagrams; informative sidebars; suggestions for further reading; and excerpts from the writings of great scientists.Introduction: About Quarks, Red Giants, and Why This Book Got Written.
A Boy with Something on His Mind.
Time on Replay.
Electrifying Thoughts and Magnetic Reasoning.
Feature: Three Charged Americans.
The M. and M.’s of Science.
Feature: If You Want Something, Go for It!
Invisible Bits of Electricity.
Feature: Charging on—to e.
Smaller than Atoms? Subatomic? Is This a Joke?
Nobel Marie.
Mysterious Rays.
Making Waves.
Five Papers.
Seeing the (Photon) Light.
Feature: Blue Skies Smiling at Us.
Molecules Move.
Getting the Picture Right.
Getting Atom.
Feature: Atoms Go from Weight to Number (Periodic Table).
Feature: In the Elemental Grocery Store.
Still Shooting Alpha Particles.
Bohr Taking Quantum Leaps.
An American Tracks Photons; a Frenchman Nails Matter.
What’s Uncertain? Everything, Says Heisenberg.
A Cat, Quarks, and Other Quantum Critters.
Feature: Up and Atom: A Review of Atomic Theory Basics.
Smashing Atoms.
Chemistry, Charisma, and Peace.
Feature: What’s in a Bond?
Energy Equals Mass Times the Square of the Speed of Light or E=mc2.
On the Way to War (a List of Happenings).
The Fission Vision.
Presidential Power.
Manhattan on a Mesa.
Quantum Electrodynamics? Surely You’re Joking.
Those Relatives: Galileo and Albert.
Relativity: It’s About Time.
Feature: Light Does Its Own Thing.
An Event? To a Physicist It’s Not a Party.
Feature: Math Matters: Euclidean and Non.
Timely Dimensions.
A Man in a Red Hat.
The Paradox of the Twins.
Relative Gravity.
Warps in Spacetime.
Does It Change? Or Is It Changeless?
Expanding Times.
An Expanding Universe.
A Luminous Indian.
Explosive? And How!
Singular Black Holes.
Gravity Waves?
Feature: May the Interaction Be with You.
A Singular BANG with a Background.
Inflation? This Chapter Is Not About Economics!
Feature: TOE Be or Not TOE Be.
Entanglement? Locality? Are We Talking Science?
Super Stars.
Feature: Experts on the Dark Side.
A Surprising Information-Age Universe.
Is Anyone Out There?
This Is the Last Chapter, but It’s Not the End.
Read On.
Picture Credits.
Index.
Permissions.