Middle World

The Restless Heart of Matter and Life

Mark Haw

256 pages, parution le 04/12/2006

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Between the microscopic world of quarks and atoms, and the macroscopic (observable) one of pebbles, planets and galaxies, there is another world, strangely neglected by science since Isaac Newton. It is inhabited by pollen, DNA and viruses - not to mention globules of paint, shampoo, milk and chocolate. Its tiny denizens have one thing in common: they cannot keep still. Physicist Mark Haw tells the pacy story of how scientists finally saw the restless middle world 200 years ago, having ignored it for so long. How, at the beginning of the twentieth century, it spectacularly answered Einstein's most basic question about the nature of matter. And how we then ignored it again until the past decade or so. Finally Haw reveals that, today, understanding the weird, jiggling 'mesoscale' has become central to nanotechnology, medicine and working out the origins of life.

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Tiny Things That Can't Stand Still
An Accidental Discovery
Gardens of Delight, Orchards of Determinism
Theories of Everything... and Rice Pudding
Statistics and Two Giant Intellects
A Question of Reality
The Importance of Being Einstein
Rubber Balls
Good Dice, Bad Dice
Nanomachines, Nanopromise and Nanothreat
Living Roots
The Cradle of Creation

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Macmillan
Auteur(s)	Mark Haw
Parution	04/12/2006
Nb. de pages	256
Format	14 x 20,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	305g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781403986030