Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World

Knocking on Heaven's Door Guides you through the ideas, and charts the progress we have made in understanding the universe - from Galileo and Newton to Einstein and the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson. This title explains how we decide what questions to ask; and how risk, beauty, creativity and truth play a role in scientific thinking. Full description