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How to speak science : gravity, relativity, and other ideas that were crazy until proven brilliant / Bruce Benamran ; translated by Stephanie Delozier Strobel.

by Benamran, Bruce,, Strobel, Stephanie Delozier, translator.

New York : The Experiment, 2018.

x, 324 pages : illustration ; 21 cm

Introduction. Correlation and causality ; Models and reality -- Matter. Atoms ; Good old science dude: Dmitri Mendeleev ; The electron ; The nucleus of the atom -- Light. Is light made of particles or waves? ; The discovery of the photoelectric effect ; First detour: heat ; Second detour: black bodies ; Einstein in 1905: the first article ; Why do they turn off airplane cabin lights for night landings? ; Why is the sky blue and the sun yellow? ; What is a rainbow? ; How many senses do humans have? ; You have never touched anything in your life -- Electromagnetism. Magnetism ; Permanent magnets ; Electricity?! What does that have to do with anything? ; Static electricity ; Electric fields ; Amp?ere, Gauss, Faraday, and others... right up to Maxwell ; Maxwell's four equations -- The solar system. The sun ; Stellar nucleosynthesis ; Formation of the solar system ; Mercury ; Good old science dude: Guillaume le Gentil, Gentle Willy ; Earth, the Goldilocks of the solar system ; The earth is round ; Good old science dude: Eratosthenes ; How old is the earth? ; Mars ; The missing planet ; Pallas, Juno, Vesta, and everyone else and their mother ; Jupiter ; The Jovian system ; Saturn ; Mimas, Enceladus, and Titan ; Uranus and Neptune ; Pluto, the fallen planet ; Kuiper belt and Oort cloud ; The dimensions of the solar system -- Classical mechanics. The great question of life, the universe, and everything ; Aristotle and impetus ; Archimedes and the first mechanics ; Eureka, or the golden crown of Hiero II, tyrant of Syracuse ; Goold old science dude: Galileo, part 1 ; Giordano Bruno, punk genius and father of relativity ; Good old science dude: Galileo, part 2 ; Good old science dude: Isaac Newton ; Force, couple, torque, and work ; Momentum and collisions ; Angular momentum -- Life. You are alive ; The incredible highways and byways of the body ; In a cell ; The incredible things your brain does all by itself ; Why is yawning contagious? ; Left-handers ; A conclusion about life? -- Thermodynamics. So, what is it? Do tell ; Is the cake pan hotter than the cake? ; The first steam engine ; Good old science dude: Francis Bacon ; Sadi Carnot, father of thermodynamics ; The three laws of thermodynamics ; And Boltzmann? ; Einstein in 1905: the second article -- Special relativity. To move or not to move? That is the question ; The problem with light ; The ether ; Michelson's interferometer ; The electrostatic problem ; Lorentz and Poincar?e ; Einstein in 1905: the third article ; A problem with clocks ; The problem with two lights ; The special theory of relativity -- General relativity. Newtonian gravity ; If a roofer fell off a roof ; Equivalence principle ; Geometrization of gravity ; Non-Euclidean space-time ; Better together in 1913: coauthoring an article ; Einstein in 1905: the fourth article ; And Mercury proves it ; The general theory of relativity ; Testing, testing, 1-2-3 ; The big problem with relativity and the rest -- Chronology of scientists.

"A book that explains the most important scientific discoveries in history in an accessible way. Presents what led to scientific discoveries such as gravity or magnetic attraction, and analyzes how scientists think."---Provided by publisher.

Originally published in France: Prenez le temps d'e-penser (Paris : Editions Marabout, 2015).

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