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A brief attempt to engage readers in the biggest questions of physics dwells on beauty and wonder Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli, Riverhead Books, 96 pages, $18 In the early 1960s, ...

The first semester of an undergraduate physics course invariably spends a lot of time on two big ideas: The momentum principle and the work energy principle. Both deal with forces acting on an object, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As the land is to the sea, a foothold in an immensity, so the Earth is to the cosmos. No wonder some scientists are ...