De la materia al cosmos : El siglo de la física cuántica y relativista

At the end of the 19th century, many thought that physics had already explained everything. But a few unresolved details were enough to trigger revolutions that changed our understanding of matter and the universe, from atoms to stars. It all began with Planck, who discovered that energy doesn't flow continuously, but in tiny jumps: quanta. Shortly after, Einstein deduced the implications of the constancy of the speed of light and that space and time form an elastic fabric where matter curves the universe, which, in turn, moves it. Rutherford and Bohr imagined the atom, and bold young minds like Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Dirac revealed the strange rules of the quantum world. A new revolution allowed us to understand nuclei, the life of stars, and why almost all matter is energy. In recent decades, black holes, dark energy, and quantum information technologies have completed a century that transformed the science and economics that drive our world today.