A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
Author：Frank Wilczek（弗蘭克·維爾切克）
Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (2016/7/12)
平裝: 448 pages
Language: 英語
ISBN-13：9780143109365
Product Dimensions: 13.9 x 2.5 x 21.2 cm
書籍簡介
什么是宇宙的秘密？相對論還是量子力學？
諾貝爾物理學獎得主維爾切克說：美，才是宇宙的答案。
一部顛覆你的宇宙觀，帶你從螞蟻視覺上升到上帝視覺的杰作！
這不是一本消磨時間的讀物，而是諾貝爾物理學獎得主維爾切克窮近50年的思索。近500頁的精美大書將讓你從上帝視角重新審視宇宙萬物。《自然》《今日物理》《華爾街日報》紛紛推薦，布萊恩·格林、邁克斯·泰格馬克、勞倫斯·克勞斯重磅推薦！
Does the universe embody beautiful ideas?
Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this “beautiful question.” With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek’s groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in nature. This is the deep logic of the universe—and it is no accident that it is also at the heart of what we find aesthetically pleasing and inspiring.
Wilczek is hardly alone among great scientists in charting his course using beauty as his compass. As he reveals in A Beautiful Question, this has been the heart of scientific pursuit from Pythagoras and the ancient belief in the music of the spheres to Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and into the deep waters of twentieth-century physics. Wilczek brings us right to the edge of knowledge today, where the core insights of even the craziest quantum ideas apply principles we all understand. The equations for atoms and light are almost the same ones that govern musical instruments and sound; the subatomic particles that are responsible for most of our mass are determined by simple geometric symmetries.
Gorgeously illustrated, A Beautiful Question is a mind-shifting book that braids the age-old quest for beauty and the age-old quest for truth into a thrilling synthesis. It is a dazzling and important work from one of our best thinkers, whose humor and infectious sense of wonder animate every page. Yes: The world is a work of art, and its deepest truths are ones we already feel, as if they were somehow written in our souls.
作者簡介
Frank Wilczek（弗蘭克·維爾切克）
李政道研究所所長，麻省理工學院教授。因在夸克粒子理論（強作用）方面所取得的成就，于2004年獲得諾貝爾物理學獎。他被譽為美國杰出的理論物理科學家。
