In the earliest moments of recorded history and through the present, brilliant minds from across the globe have competed and collaborated on scientific breakthroughs that have shaped our lives. From computers to space travel and nuclear power, all the significant achievements that have transformed the way we live have in one way or another had physics at their cores. PHYSICS IN 50 MILESTONE MOMENTS is a lively, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to physics, its history, and its practitioners. Uniquely, it is structured around a timeline of landmark events that brings vividly to life the evolution of this most fundamental science, from the Stone Age, through the classical era and the Renaissance, to the present day. As well as offering a comprehensive guide to physics, this book helps make the big ideas intelligible to us by placing them in their real-world contexts.
