Paul Halpern, Author John Wiley & Sons $27.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-470-28620-3
Halpern (What's Science Ever Done For Us?), professor of physics and mathematics, makes particle physics accessible in this look at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ""and the extraordinary discoveries likely to be made there."" Beginning with...
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Paul Halpern, Author Dutton Books $21 (256p) ISBN 978-0-525-93477-6
Halpern ( Time Journeys ) tackles the No. 1 recreational problem of theoretical physics: actual applications of special relativity to create the possibility of spacetime travel. The ``intersteller shortcuts'' in the subtitle is an oxymoron in...
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Paul Halpern, Author Plenum Publishing Corporation $27.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-306-44923-9
In this survey for lay readers, physicist Halpern (Cosmic Wormholes; Time Journeys) shows how present notions of cosmology, the natural history of the universe, have evolved. He explains the main findings and hypotheses of modern astrophysical work...
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Paul Halpern, Author Basic Books $27.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-306-45623-7
The scientific search for extraterrestrial life has been somewhat eclipsed by the hoopla about Roswell, UFO sightings and movie special effects. Yet in this sober study, Halpern (The Structure of the Universe) does his best to dramatize the quests...
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Paul Halpern. Basic, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-465-07571-3
Halpern (Edge of the Universe) attempts his own grand unification in this look at the lives, work, and friendship of two giants of physics. He details the romances, careers, and politics of contemporaries Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger from...
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Paul Halpern, Author, Halpern, Author . Wiley $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-471-46595-9
Ever since Plato first told his students the allegory of the cave, people have wondered whether dimensions exist beyond the three we immediately perceive. An extra dimension—time—played a role in Einstein's work, although he saw it...
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Paul Halpern, Author, Paul Wesson, Author . Joseph Henry $27.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-309-10137-0
University of Washington paleontologist Ward (Rare Earth
) clearly sets forth the premise of his provocative book: "changing atmospheric oxygen levels over the last 600 million years have caused significant evolutionary change in animals."...
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Paul Halpern. Basic, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-1-541-67363-2
Physicist Halpern (The Quantum Labyrinth) makes a valiant if not fully successful attempt to render quantum mechanics accessible. Halpern surveys the human search to understand the cosmos, beginning with the ancient Greeks’ interest in the speed of...
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Paul Halpern. Basic, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-1-5416-7359-5
Physics professor Halpern (The Quantum Labyrinth) explores in this uneven survey a mid-century argument about the origin of the universe. In the late 1940s, questions about how the universe began were hotly debated. One side, led by Russian American
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Paul Halpern. Basic, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5416-0217-5
Halpern (Flashes of Creation), a physics professor at Saint Joseph’s University, delves into the multiverse in this thought-provoking if challenging offering. He opens with a superb introduction to the concept of the multiverse, explaining that it...
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