Symmetry Rules: How Science and Nature Are Founded on Symmetry

by Joe Rosen and Joseph Rosen

Book Overview

Ernest Rutherford (New Zealand-British physicist, 1871-1937), the 1908 Nobel Laureate who discovered the existence of atomic nuclei, is famously quoted as having said: "Physics is the only real science. All the rest is butter?y collecting." Or something to that e?ect. I like to include this quote in my introductory remarks at the ?rst class meetings of the physics courses I teach. I have seen that there are those whointerpret this as a put-down of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540759727
• ISBN13: 9783540759720
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"