The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
By: Leonard Susskind
4.09
Format: 129 pages, Hardcover
What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a yo…
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1. Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
By: Stephen Hawking , Kip S. Thorne , None
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ever since Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity burst upon the world in 1915 some of the … read more
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"Why are black holes so different from all other objects in the macroscopic Universe? Why are they, and they alone, so elegantly simple? If I knew the answer, it would probably tell me something very …"-Stephen Hawking, Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
2. Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
By: Simon Singh
4.21
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
A half century ago, a shocking Washington Post headline claimed that the world began in five catacl… read more
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"All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable."-Simon Singh, Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
3. Climbing Mount Improbable
By: Richard Dawkins
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shap… read more
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4. Black Holes and Baby Universes
By: Stephen Hawking
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
NY Timesbestseller. 13 extraordinary essays shed new light on the mysteries of the universe & on on… read more
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5. The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
By: Leonard Susskind
4.09
Format: 129 pages, Hardcover
What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a yo… read more
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6. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
By: Daniel C. Dennett
4.07
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Bos… read more
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"Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications."-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
"I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics."-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
"There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination. —Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995"-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
"Science, however, is not just a matter of making mistakes, but of making mistakes in public. Making mistakes for all to see, in the hopes of getting the others to help with the corrections."-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
7. Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
By: Richard P. Feynman , Roger Penrose
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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8. About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
By: Paul C.W. Davies
4.23
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
An elegant, witty, and engaging exploration of the riddle of time, which examines the consequences … read more
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" David Park is a physicist and philosopher at Williams College in Massachusetts with a lifelong interest in a time which he too thinks doesn't pass. For Park, the passage of time is not so much an il…"-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
"Perhaps there are many "nows" of varying duration, depending on just what it is we are doing. We must face up to the fact that, at least in the case of humans, the subject experiencing subjective tim…"-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
"Until now, I've been writing about "now" as if it were literally an instant of time, but of course human faculties are not infinitely precise. It is simplistic to suppose that physical events and men…"-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
"Psychologists have devised some ingenious ways to help unpack the human "now." Consider how we run those jerky movie frames together into a smooth and continuous stream. This is known as the "phi phe…"-Paul C.W. Davies, About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
9. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
By: Roger Penrose
3.82
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Roger Penrose, one of the most accomplished scientists of our time, presents the only comprehensive… read more
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10. Hyperspace
By: Michio Kaku
4.18
Format: 342 pages,
How many dimensions do you live in? Three? Maybe that's all your commonsense sense perception perce… read more
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11. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.50
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
Famous the world over for the creative brilliance of his insights into the physical world, Nobel Pr… read more
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12. The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe
By: Julian Barbour
4.00
Format: None pages,
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13. The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe
By: Steven Weinberg
4.57
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
This classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains to general… read more
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14. The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
By: Lee Smolin
4.04
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
What is string theory? Why does it matter to our understanding of the universe? And what if it is w… read more
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"When it comes to revolutionizing science, what matters is quality of thought, not quantity of true believers."-Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
"Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong."-Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
"On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge."-Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
"It is interesting to note that the quantum-mechanical revolution was made by a virtually orphaned generation of scientists. Many members of the generation above them had been slaughtered in World War…"-Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
15. Three Roads To Quantum Gravity
By: Lee Smolin
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
"It would be hard to imagine a better guide to this difficult subject."--Scientific American In Thr… read more
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16. In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
By: John Gribbin
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
It is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it pr… read more
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"If the business of physics is ever finished, the world will be a much less interesting place in which to live . . ."-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"...it is not the way of science to sit idly back and hope that someone will come up with a "better" answer to our problems. In the absence of a better answer, we have to face up to the implications o…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
"Heisenberg's uncertainty relation measures the amount by which the complementary descriptions of the electron, or other fundamental entities, overlap. Position is very much a particle property - part…"-John Gribbin, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
17. From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
By: Sean Carroll
3.50
Format: None pages,
Twenty years after Stephen Hawking's 9-million-copy selling A Brief History of Time, pioneering the… read more
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18. The 4 Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality
By: Richard Panek
3.69
Format: 47 pages,
The epic, behind-the-scenes story of an astounding gap in our scientific knowledge of the cosmos. I… read more
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19. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
By: Albert Einstein , Robert W. Lawson , Nigel Calder
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
An accesible version of Einstein's masterpiece of theory, written by the genius himself According t… read more
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20. Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
By: Manjit Kumar
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many … read more
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21. The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
By: Brian Greene
3.82
Format: 148 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universeand The Fabric of the Cosmoscomes his most expa… read more
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