The second creation

Description

Now back in print, The Second Creation is the intimate story of the decades-long scientific quest for "unification," a theory that draws together all matter and energy, from the hottest supernovas to the whirring fragments of the atom. Based on scores of in-depth interviews with such brilliant scientists as Max Planck, Erwin Schrodinger, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Glashow, and Steven Weinberg, Robert Crease and Charles Mann vividly portray the tense, exciting world of investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. In telling the richly human story of the two generations of scientists who set out to find the "theory of everything," the authors recount a sweeping saga that moves from the early days of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr arguing in a Copenhagen park to the vast, mile-long atom smashers of today. The Second Creation is a definitive group portrait of twentieth-century physics.

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Other Editions

• The second creation: makers of the revolution in twentieth-century physicsMacMillan1986-01-01
• The Second CreationPaperbackCollier Books1987-10-01
• The Second CreationCollier Books1987-10-01
• The second creationRutgers University Press1996-01-01
• The second creationQuartet1997-01-01
• Second CreationPaperbackInterlink Publishing+group Inc1997-03-25