强力、弱力、电磁力、引力，源于宇宙之初的四种基本作用力构成并支配了我们世界。这四种力究竟如何形成并发挥作用？ 万物存在的“质量”又源于何处？
本书以通俗易懂的语言解读了强力与弱力以及基本粒子的相互作用机制，用推理小说的线索追踪与解谜方式介绍了微观层面下的奇妙世界以及自然的基本结构，能够让你以全新的视角面对和反思宇宙、自然以及万物的存在。

The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting, consoling journey to discover the meaning of time
'We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. We are memory. We are nostalgia. We are longing for a future that will not come.'
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Time flows at a different speed in different places, the past and the future differ far less than we might think, and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe.
With his extraordinary charm and sense of wonder, bringing together science, philosophy and art, Carlo Rovelli unravels this mystery. Enlightening and consoling, The Order of Time shows that to understand ourselves we need to reflect on time -- and to understand time we need to reflect on ourselves.

Two-part documentary which deals with two of the deepest questions there are - what is everything, and what is nothing?
In two epic, surreal and mind-expanding films, Professor Jim Al-Khalili searches for an answer to these questions as he explores the true size and shape of the universe and delves into the amazing science behind apparent nothingness.
The first part, Everything, sees Professor Al-Khalili set out to discover what the universe might actually look like. The journey takes him from the distant past to the boundaries of the known universe. Along the way he charts the remarkable stories of the men and women who discovered the truth about the cosmos and investigates how our understanding of space has been shaped by both mathematics and astronomy.
The second part, Nothing, explores science at the very limits of human perception, where we now understand the deepest mysteries of the universe lie. Jim sets out to answer one very simple question - what is nothing? His journey ends with perhaps the most profound insight about reality that humanity has ever made. Everything came from nothing. The quantum world of the super-small shaped the vast universe we inhabit today, and Jim can prove it.

大开眼界的跨学科前沿探索之旅
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重新理解生命起源和进化的奇迹
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弥合生物学与物理学之间的巨大鸿沟
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运用全新视角破解生命谜题
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信息引擎、生物电路、量子计算机、癌症基因、表观遗传学、地外生命……聚焦前沿成果，阐释宏大议题，解读生命秩序的隐秘动力，剖析复杂世界的内在逻辑，启迪思想、提升智识，一本不容错过的深度好书！
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★生物物理学点睛之笔——全新的视角，开拓性思考
★对薛定谔《生命是什么》的绝妙回应——融合生物学、物理学、计算科学、认知科学等前沿研究
★《物种起源》+《自私的基因》，达尔文进化论2.0——分子生物学、表观遗传学
★《今日简史》+《十问》，关于未来的“大问题”——科学家对人类命运的前瞻性思考
★生命领域的《规模》——解读复杂世界的简单法则，展现尺度不同带来的巨变
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【内容简介】
生命是什么？
1943年，诺贝尔奖获得者、量子力学的重要奠基人薛定谔提出了这个划时代的问题，他指出：我们需要新物理学来给出答案。
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这本书从这个经典问题出发，结合香农的信息论、达尔文的进化论和诸多领域的前沿研究，将量子力学应用于生物学、计算科学等领域，超越各个学科的界限，用全新视角探究生命的本质。书中提出了一个突破性的观点：生命=物质+信息，分子组构是生命的“硬件”，信息组构则是生命的“软件”。生物体中含有大量高效的微型机器，它们聪明地处理和控制着信息，像变魔术一样从混沌中获得秩序。进化让这张隐形的信息网络不断升级。
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保罗·戴维斯将生物学、物理学、数学、化学、信息科学、医学和哲学等领域融为一体，引领了极具洞见的全新交叉学科。这种新科学涉及信息引擎、生物电路、癌症基因、量子计算机等众多前沿科学领域，用信息的观点重新解读生命之谜。
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这是一本探索生命起源及内在逻辑的生物物理学普及读物，也是一次让人大开眼界的跨学科前沿探索之旅。
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让智力探险，思想旅行，一起寻找生命秩序的隐秘动力！

一九○五年，历史上重大的一年，在瑞士专利局工作的爱因斯坦即将要创造出惊天动地的理论，却陷入了一段又一段的梦中……在梦里，时间是一个圆，反覆循环；或者，时间静止不动；有时，时间是一只夜莺，人们想捉而捉不到；但捉到时鸟却立时死亡……
三十个各自独立的梦境，留下了无数个关于生命的问号。
如果时间流转的方式不同，我们仍会如同现在一样的生活吗？
如果生命以老朽为始，以童稚为终，那么年轻和年老如何定义？
如果生命只有短短的二十四小时，看过一次日出就要淍零，此刻为何奔忙？
如果所有梦想都将预知会成败，我们是否还会梦想？
如果此刻初遇的爱人，下一刻便不复存在，爱情会不会只是一场徒劳？
如果一分钟后世界就要末日，又该在哪里与谁相伴？

《从零学相对论》由梁灿彬、曹周键所著，本书虽然力求易懂，却并非科普著作，因为书中出现许多公式，要求读者有起码的一点微积分知识。书中对许多问题的深入细致、追根问底式的讨论也完全不是科普书的味道。书名《趣味相对论》容易被误解为科普书，所以后来放弃。本书共有9章，前5章讲狭义相对论，后4章讲广义相对论，都是从零开始，所以书名改为《从零学相对论》，可作为我国高等学校物理学类、天文学类各专业本科生及研究牛的广义相对论课程教材，亦可供有关的科学研究人员和教师参考。各行各业的相对论爱好者（及优秀高中生）只要稍有微积分初步知识都可将《从零学相对论》选作从零起学习相对论的入门读物。

What are time and space made of?
Where does matter come from?
And what exactly is reality?
Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions and pushing the boundaries of what we know. Here he explains how our image of the world has changed over the last few dozen centuries.
In elegant and accessible prose, Rovelli takes us on a wondrous journey from Aristotle to Albert Einstein, from Michael Faraday to the Higgs boson, and from classical physics to his own work in quantum gravity. As he shows us how the idea of reality has evolved over time, Rovelli offers readers a deeper understanding of the theories he introduced so concisely in Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. His evocative explanations invite us to imagine, beyond our ever-changing idea of reality, a whole new world that has yet to be discovered.

Everything you need to know about modern physics, the universe and our place in the world in seven enlightening lessons
'Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world. And it's breathtaking'
These seven short lessons guide us, with simplicity and clarity, through the scientific revolution that shook physics in the twentieth century and still continues to shake us today. In this beautiful and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind. In under eighty pages, readers will understand the most transformative scientific discoveries of the twentieth century and what they mean for us. Not since Richard Feynman's celebrated best-seller Six Easy Pieces has physics been so vividly, intelligently and entertainingly revealed.

From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a concise, elegant exploration of time.
Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to “flow”? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike.
For most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy, science and literature, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe.
Already a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.

物理学家史蒂芬•霍金最后的著作《十问：霍金沉思录》，这本书涉及他对科学与社会所面临的大问题的思考，包括“人类是否会一直在地球上生存下去？（可能不会）”“时间旅行是否可能？（仍无法排除可能性）”等；还有对诸如地球面临的严重威胁、“超人”种群以及外太空是否存在智慧生命、人类是否应该去开拓太空殖民地等问题进行的最后预测，这些预测饱含了霍金对人类未来深深的忧思。

Devoted to the foundation of mechanics, namely classical Newtonian mechanics, the subject is based mainly on Galileo's principle of relativity and Hamilton's principle of least action. The exposition is simple and leads to the most complete direct means of solving problems in mechanics. The final sections on adiabatic invariants have been revised and augmented. In addition a short biography of L D Landau has been inserted.