Knowing: The Nature of Physical Law

Knowing: The Nature of Physical Law

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-432

  Munowitz, Michael ^a  

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Author keywords

Big Bang; Book of nature; Classical mechanics; Dark energy; Dark matter; Electricity; Electromagnetism; Entropy; Newtonian mechanics; Universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 49249089687     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195167375.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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