{"id":61092,"date":"2024-04-23T18:05:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T16:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/?post_type=pc_contributor&#038;p=61092"},"modified":"2025-04-09T10:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:09:19","slug":"jonathan-allday","status":"publish","type":"pc_contributor","link":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/contributor\/jonathan-allday\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Allday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>JONATHAN ALLDAY,<\/strong>\u00a0PhD,\u00a0taught physics at a range of schools in the UK. After attending the Liverpool Blue Coat School, he took his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge, then gained a PhD in particle physics in 1989 at Liverpool University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after this, he started work on\u00a0<em>Quarks Leptons and the Big Bang<\/em>, now published by Taylor &amp; Francis and available in its third edition, which was intended as a rigorous but accessible introduction to these topics. Since then, he has also written\u00a0<em>Apollo in Perspective<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Quantum Reality<\/em>\u00a0(now in its second edition), and\u00a0<em>Space-time<\/em>, co-authored a successful textbook and contributed to an encyclopaedia for young scientists. He has also written on aspects of the history and philosophy of science. His most recent book is\u00a0<em>Introduction to Entropy: The Way of the World<\/em>,\u00a0co-authored with Simon Hands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jonathan has also contributed to the updated edition of the\u00a0<em>Looking-Glass Universe<\/em>\u00a0co-authored by F. David Peat and John Briggs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JONATHAN ALLDAY,\u00a0PhD,\u00a0taught physics at a range of schools in the UK. After attending the Liverpool Blue Coat School, he took his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge, then gained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6464,"featured_media":70824,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-61092","pc_contributor","type-pc_contributor","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pc_contributor\/61092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pc_contributor"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pc_contributor"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pc_contributor\/61092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paricenter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}