Everything That Moves: Walks Through the Restless Universe

The book discusses the functioning of the Solar System and the possibilities of traveling through it; the relationships between space, time, and motion in the special theory of relativity and the problems they define for galactic flights; the general theory... of relativity and its effects, including non-Keplerian orbits, time dilation, gravitational waves, and exotic means of faster-than-light travel; entropy as ignorance of microscopic motion and its applications from heat engines to Maxwell's demon and black holes; quantum mechanics, including tunneling, the uniqueness of atomic structure, entanglement, and interpretations aimed at clarifying the state of Schrödinger's cat. According to the rules of our Universe, rest is impossible, and the reader will have to appreciate its restless diversity.