Fantastic Realities

49 Mind Journeys and A Trip to Stockholm

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Physics, General Physics
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Author: Frank Wilczek ISBN: 9789814338196
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Publication: March 13, 2006
Imprint: WSPC Language: English
Author: Frank Wilczek
ISBN: 9789814338196
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication: March 13, 2006
Imprint: WSPC
Language: English

With a contribution from Betsy Devine

Podcast of Frank Wilczek and Betsy Devine's interview with Steve Mirsky of Scientific American

The fantastic reality that is modern physics is open for your exploration, guided by one of its primary architects and interpreters, Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek.

Some jokes, some poems, and extracts from wife Betsy Devine's sparkling chronicle of what it's like to live through a Nobel Prize provide easy entertainment. There's also some history, some philosophy, some exposition of frontier science, and some frontier science, for your lasting edification.

49 pieces, including many from Wilczek's award-winning Reference Frame columns in Physics Today, and some never before published, are gathered by style and subject into a dozen chapters, each with a revealing, witty introduction.

Profound ideas, presented with style: What could be better? Enjoy.

Contents:

  • Constructing This World, and Others
  • Musing on Mechanics
  • Making Light of Mass
  • QCD Exposed
  • Breathless at the Heights
  • At Sea in the Depths
  • Once and Future History
  • Methods of Our Madness
  • Inspired, Irritated, Inspired
  • Big Ideas
  • Grand Occasions
  • Breaking into Verse
  • Another Dimension

Readership: Students, scientists and lay people.

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With a contribution from Betsy Devine

Podcast of Frank Wilczek and Betsy Devine's interview with Steve Mirsky of Scientific American

The fantastic reality that is modern physics is open for your exploration, guided by one of its primary architects and interpreters, Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek.

Some jokes, some poems, and extracts from wife Betsy Devine's sparkling chronicle of what it's like to live through a Nobel Prize provide easy entertainment. There's also some history, some philosophy, some exposition of frontier science, and some frontier science, for your lasting edification.

49 pieces, including many from Wilczek's award-winning Reference Frame columns in Physics Today, and some never before published, are gathered by style and subject into a dozen chapters, each with a revealing, witty introduction.

Profound ideas, presented with style: What could be better? Enjoy.

Contents:

Readership: Students, scientists and lay people.

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