O.P. Spiridonov

Hardcover

203 Pages

Mir Publishers Moscow

In the vast and difficult journey toward scientific understanding, Nature has left us a series of milestones: the universal physical constants. While often treated as mere footnotes in science education, these constants are, in fact, the most significant ideas in modern physics.

This short, popular science book pays tribute to the dramatic events and elegant experiments that brought these constants to light. It is a review of the "best minds" of science—including Newton, Einstein, and Planck—and a look at how their pursuit of precision changed the way we see the world.

Written for the general reader and stripped of all but the simplest equations, this book aims to whet the appetite for further knowledge and prove, once and for all, just how beautiful the science of physics truly is.