| 0.01 | | [titolo] |
| 0.03 | | [frontespizio] |
| 0.04 | | [colophon] |
| 0.05 | | Dietary note [ di Graham Paul Farmelo ] |
| 0.07 | | Contents |
| ;2001.08 | 0.09 | Foreword | It Must be Beautiful [ di Graham Paul Farmelo ] |
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| 1 | | A Revolution with no Revolutionaries. The Planck-Einstein Equation for the Energy of a Quantum [ di Graham Paul Farmelo ] |
| 1 | I. | . |
| 4 | II. | . |
| 12 | III. | . |
| 21 | IV. | . |
| 25 | V. | . |
| 27 | | Acknowledgements |
| 28 | | The Sextant Equation. E = mc2 [ di P. Galison ] |
| 47 | | The Rediscovery of Gravity. The Einstein Equation of General Relativity [ di Roger Penrose ] |
| 47 | | Introduction |
| 50 | | The Principle of Equivalence |
| 53 | | Tidal Forces |
| 56 | | Space-Time Curvature |
| 58 | | Minkowski's Notion of Space-Time Geometry |
| 63 | | Curved Space-Time Geometry |
| 66 | | Full General Relativity |
| 68 | | Classical Tests of General Relativity |
| 69 | | Gravitation Waves |
| 71 | | Some Difficulties with General Relativity |
| 73 | | Space-Time Singularities |
| 75 | | The Beginning and Ends of Time |
| 77 | | Quantum Gravity? |
| 80 | | Erotica, Aesthetics and Schrödinger's Wave Equations [ di Arthur I. Miller ] |
| 102 | | A Piece of Magic [ di Frank Anthony Wilczek ] |
| 104 | | Dirac's Problem and the Unity of Nature |
| 107 | | The Early Payoff: Spin |
| 110 | | The Dramatic Surprise:Antimatter |
| 115 | | The Deepest Meanings: Quantum Field Theory |
| 118 | | Aftermaths |
| 119 | | QED and Magnetic Moments |
| 121 | | QCD and the Theory of Matter |
| 125 | | The Fertility of Reason |
| 130 | | Acknoledgements |
| 131 | | Understanding Information, bit by bit. Shannon's Equations [ di Igor Aleksander ] |
| 149 | | Hidden Symmetry. Thee Yang-Mills Equation [ di Christine Sutton ] |
| 150 | | The Forces of Nature |
| 152 | | Understanding Electromagnetism |
| 154 | | The Importance of Symmetry |
| 156 | | Particles and Waves |
| 159 | | A New Kind of Symmetry |
| 160 | | The Mass Problem |
| 162 | | Electroweak Unification |
| 165 | | The Colour Force |
| 167 | | An Idea of its Time |
| 171 | | A Mirror in the Sky. The Drake Equation [ di Oliver Morton ] |
| 193 | | Equations of Life. The Mathematics of Evolution [ di John Maynard Smith ] |
| 212 | | The Best Possible Time to be Alive. The Logistic Map [ di Robert May ] |
| 212 | I. | . |
| 215 | II. | . |
| 217 | III. | . |
| 224 | IV. | . |
| 227 | V. | . |
| 231 | | An Environmental Fairy Tale. The Molina-Rowland Chemical Equations and the CC Problem [ di Aisling Irwin ] |
| 253 | | Afterword. How Great Equations Survive [ di Steven Weinberg ] |
| 258 | | Notes and Further Reading |
| 273 | | Index |
| 283 | | _ |
| 286 | | ___ |
