物理学

ニュートン力学から相対性理論、量子力学まで……「宇宙を支配する力」に迫る知的探求の旅！本書では、カルフォルニア大学バークレー校教授で理論物理学者の野村泰紀さんが、「ニュートン力学」や「相対性理論」といった古典物理学から、「量子力学」などの現代物理学に至るまでを概観しつつ、「重力はなぜ存在するのか？」

Ｑ．「時間」とは何か？人類史上最大の謎を解き明かす！「時間って何？」「時間はなぜ存在するの？」そう誰かから聞かれたと仮定しましょう。果たしてあなたは正しく答えられるでしょうか？

量子力学を創始し，原子物理学の基礎を築いた人が追究した生命の本質とは？　本書は分子生物学の生みの親となった20世紀の名著である．生物現象ことに遺伝のしくみと染色体行動における物質の構造と

まだ見ぬ「神」を探して――岡潔×小林秀雄の名著『人間の建設』の現代版がここに誕生！話者のひとりはカオス理論の確立者であり、複雑系科学の第一人者の数学者、物理学者の津田一郎。

物質を作る最小単位の粒子である素粒子。誕生直後の宇宙は、素粒子が原子にならない状態でバラバラに飛び交う、高温高圧の火の玉だった。だから、素粒子の種類や素粒子に働く力の法則が分かれば宇宙の成り

J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is essential listening for understanding the history, philosophy, and evolution of science....

Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age....

Acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, chance, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives....

Michio Kaku offers the first book-length tour of the most exciting (and perhaps most bizarre) work in modern physics....

The beauty of fractal patterns and their relation to chaos, as well as the history of chaos, and its uses in the real world and implications for the philosophy of science are all discussed in this Very Short Introduction audiobook....

In this podcast, Taylor and Andrew investigate the past, present, and future of materials science and engineering. Topic areas ranging from cutting ...

This Very Short Introduction presents the field of fluid mechanics by focusing on the underlying physical ideas and using everyday phenomena to demonstrate them, from dripping taps to swimming ducks....

We examine some of the most fascinating discoveries about black hole formation and behavior, the new and evolving research in gravitational wave astronomy, theoretical possibilities such as wormholes, and much more....

Did NASA really spend millions creating a pen that would write in space? Is chocolate poisonous to dogs? Does stress cause gray hair? These questions are a sample of the urban lore investigated in this audiobook....

Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space....

A Mysterious Universe introduces the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics, theory of relativity, and cosmology to a novice in simple language. This concise book deals with deep issues related to the mysteries of modern physics.

This nontechnical introduction to cosmology, or the creation and development of the universe, explains the discipline, covers its history, details the latest developments, and explains what is known, what is believed, and what is purely speculative....

Michael Schneider leads us on a spectacular journey along the numbers one through 10 to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body....

A special tenth anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd is revised and annotated with answers to important questions you never thought to ask.