Farewell to Reality
How Fairytale Physics Betrays the Search for Scientific Truth
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- 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: | 214mm x 138mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Jim Baggott
With a doctorate at the University of Oxford, Jim Baggot worked as a postgraduate research fellow at Oxford and at Stanford University in California. He returned to England to take up a lectureship in chemistry at the University of Reading. He worked in the oil industry for 11 years before setting up his own independent business and training consultancy. He has won the Marlow Medal by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Glaxo Science Writer’s prize in 1992. And writes often in UK newspapers and New Scientist magazine and has contributed to several BBC radio programmes.
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.Returns
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