Physics for Poets

This is a very accessible and brief introduction to physics for the non-science major; a text written for the curious non-scientist who wants to know how modern physics came to be, and figure out what lies behind the stories in the science columns of newspapers. - Cosmology is the new theme of this text, showing first how modern physics was born of the struggle to gain acceptance for the Copernican Theory, which leads to Newton's Law of Gravity and the link between cosmology and general relativity. The final chapter describes the current cosmological standard model. - A revised interpretation of the Quantum Theory explains that the indeterminary problem has been resolved through the concept of decoherency but the enigma of nonlocality remains. - Additional exercises and worked examples have been added to the end of the book.