Nature's Balancing Act
how small quirks of physics makes life possible
$117.21
- Hardcover
168 pages
- Release Date
7 October 2025
Summary
Nature’s Balancing Act: Unveiling the Universe’s Delicate Dance for Life
Are the physical laws of our universe finely tuned to allow life to exist? What does this imply about the universe’s formation? Nature’s Balancing Act explores these questions for a broad audience.
From the Big Bang to current research, including gravitational waves and antimatter experiments, the book reveals how our physical laws are slightly off-balance, enabling life.
The opening ch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780197771440 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0197771440 |
| Author: | Ken Hicks |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 7 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 23mm |
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About The Author
Ken Hicks
Ken Hicks is an experimental particle physicist. He has led experiments at accelerator facilities in the U.S. and Japan and has co-authored over 250 scientific journal articles. For 15 years, he wrote an astronomy column for the Columbus Dispatch. Now Professor Emeritus, he taught at Ohio University for 34 years and is currently a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and also served as Secretary-Treasurer for the Division of Nuclear Physics and as Program Director at the National Science Foundation. For fun, he does sprint triathlons.
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