The Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New

In volume three, students will look over Albert Einstein's shoulder as he and his colleagues develop a new kind of physics. It leads in two directions: to knowledge of the vast universe and its future (insights build on Einstein's theories of relativity), and to an understanding of the astonishingly small subatomic world (the realm of quantum physics). Students will learn why relativity and quantum theory revolutionized our world and led to the most important ideas in modern science, maybe of all time. In the three-bookThe Story of Scienceseries, master storyteller Joy Hakim narrates the evolution of scientific thought from ancient times to the present. With lively, character-driven narrative, Hakim spotlights the achievements of some of the world's greatest scientists and encourages a similiar spirit of inquiry in readers. The books include hundreds of color photographs, charts, maps, and diagrams; informative sidebars; suggestions for further reading; and excerpts from the writings of great scientists.

Author of the prize-winning series A History of US, Joy Hakim is the recipient of the James Michener Award in Writing and the Gold and Silver Parents' Choice Awards in Writing.

Introduction: About Quarks, Red Giants, and Why This Book Got Written	p. viii
A Boy with Something on His Mind	p. 1
Time on Replay	p. 10
Electrifying Thoughts and Magnetic Reasoning	p. 18
Feature: Three Charged Americans	p. 26
The M. and M.'s of Science	p. 28
Feature: If You Want Something, Go for It!	p. 32
Invisible Bits of Electricity	p. 36
Feature: Charging on-to e	p. 48
Smaller than Atoms? Subatomic? Is This a Joke?	p. 50
Nobel Marie	p. 54
Mysterious Rays	p. 58
Making Waves	p. 70
Five Papers	p. 78
Seeing the (Photon) Light	p. 86
Feature: Blue Skies Smiling at Us	p. 96
Molecules Move	p. 98
Getting the Picture Right	p. 104
Getting Atom	p. 114
Feature: Atoms Go from Weight to Number (Periodic Table)	p. 122
Feature: In the Elemental Grocery Store	p. 126
Still Shooting Alpha Particles	p. 128
Bohr Taking Quantum Leaps	p. 136
An American Tracks Photons; a Frenchman Nails Matter	p. 144
What's Uncertain? Everything, Says Heisenberg	p. 150
A Cat, Quarks, and Other Quantum Critters	p. 158
Feature: Up and Atom: A Review of Atomic Theory Basics	p. 166
Smashing Atoms	p. 170
Chemistry, Charisma, and Peace	p. 178
Feature: What's in a Bond?	p. 186
Energy Equals Mass Times the Square of the Speed of Light or E=mc[superscript 2]	p. 190
On the Way to War (a List of Happenings)	p. 192
The Fission Vision	p. 204
Presidential Power	p. 220
Manhattan on a Mesa	p. 236
Quantum Electrodynamics? Surely You're Joking	p. 254
Those Relatives: Galileo and Albert	p. 260
Relativity: It's About Time	p. 266
Feature: Light Does Its Own Thing	p. 272
An Event? To a Physicist It's Not a Party	p. 276
Feature: Math Matters: Euclidean and Non	p. 282
Timely Dimensions	p. 284
A Man in a Red Hat	p. 290
The Paradox of the Twins	p. 296
Relative Gravity	p. 302
Warps in Spacetime	p. 312
Does It Change? Or Is It Changeless?	p. 322
Expanding Times	p. 326
An Expanding Universe	p. 334
A Luminous Indian	p. 340
Explosive? And How!	p. 346
Singular Black Holes	p. 356
Gravity Waves?	p. 370
Feature: May the Interaction Be with You	p. 378
A Singular Bang with a Background	p. 382
Inflation? This Chapter Is Not About Economics!	p. 392
Feature: Toe Be or Not Toe Be	p. 403
Entanglement? Locality? Are We Talking Science?	p. 406
Super Stars	p. 414
Feature: Experts on the Dark Side	p. 424
A Surprising Information00389Universe	p. 428
Is Anyone Out There?	p. 438
This Is the Last Chapter, but It's Not the End	p. 450
Read On	p. 456
Picture Credits	p. 457
Index	p. 460
Permissions	p. 468
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