TY - BOOK AU - Paul Davies AU - John Gribbin TI - The Matter Myth SN - 9780743290913 AV - QC6.4.R42 U1 - 530 PY - 2007/// PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Physical Sciences N2 - In this sweeping survey, acclaimed science writers Paul Davies and John Gribbin provide a complete overview of advances in the study of physics that have revolutionized modern science. From the weird world of quarks and the theory of relativity to the latest ideas about the birth of the cosmos, the authors find evidence for a massive paradigm shift. Developments in the studies of black holes, cosmic strings, solitons, and chaos theory challenge commonsense concepts of space, time, and matter, and demand a radically altered and more fully unified view of the universe ER -