Farewell to Reality
How Fairytale Physics Betrays the Search for Scientific Truth
$66.40
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
16 May 2013
Summary
Modern physics is heady stuff. It seems that barely a week goes by without some new astounding science story; some revelation about hidden dimensions, multiple universes, the holographic principle or incredible cosmic coincidences. But is it true? What evidence do we have for super-symmetric squarks’, or superstrings vibrating in an 11-dimensional space-time? How do we know that we live in a multiverse? How can we tell that the universe is a hologram projected from information encoded on its …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780334929 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780334923 |
| Author: | Jim Baggott |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 16 May 2013 |
| Weight: | 382g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 138mm x 214mm |
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Jim Baggott
Jim Baggot holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and worked as a postgraduate research fellow at Oxford and Stanford University in California. He returned to England to lecture in chemistry at the University of Reading. After 11 years in the oil industry, he established his own independent business and training consultancy. He is a recipient of the Marlow Medal by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Glaxo Science Writer’s prize in 1992. He frequently writes in UK newspapers and New Scientist magazine, and has contributed to several BBC radio programs.
His previous books include: The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments, Atomic: The First War of Physics, and A Beginner’s Guide to Reality.
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