To be reminded that time and space, mystery and order, are so much stranger and more generous than we can comprehend-this is a gift to public life and moral imagination in a young century where what is visible and tangible feels chaotic and constricting. This is an exuberant, gorgeously crafted, and intellectually thrilling book, written by one of our greatest living scientists yet hospitable to all. Steven Pinker, Johnson Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Enlightenment Now Kirkus,starred reviewĪ gorgeous and inviting overview of the fundamental facts of physical reality.
Another winner from Wilczek, who invites us to be born again into a richer, deeper understanding of the world. the narrative is a mind-bender of the first order-in the best way possible-but what makes it so engrossing is that the author does far more than just present the facts and speculations, however fascinating on every page, readers will glean his exhilaration and joy in discovery. a stimulating and very readable scientific tour of the cosmos. The universe at its grandest and most minuscule is explored in this beguiling meditation on physics. Brilliant, lucid, and accessible, this celebration of human ingenuity and imagination will expand your world and your mind. He excavates the history of fundamental science, exploring what we know and how we know it, while journeying to the horizons of the scientific world to give us a glimpse of what we may soon discover. Synthesizing basic questions, facts, and dazzling speculations, Wilczek investigates the ideas that form our understanding of the universe: time, space, matter, energy, complexity, and complementarity. Through these pages, we come to see our reality in a new way-bigger, fuller, and stranger than it looked before. With clarity and an infectious sense of joy, he guides us through the essential concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how it works.
In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science.
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist offers ten insights that illuminate all you need to know about the Universe
0 kommentar(er)
