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A Briefer History of Time 65 reviews
Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
Bantam, 2005
Non-Fiction for Science Fiction Lovers
+ Wonderful
+ Brief, informative, enjoyable
+ Great read!!!
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Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries Tag: Author of In Search of ... 32 reviews
John Gribbin
Back Bay Books, 1996
12 years old, still 96% relevant
+ An excellent review of quantum physics and reality
+ My Head Spun Afterwards...but it was a Good Spin!
+ OK, but Gribbin's In Search of Schrodingers Cat is Better.
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory505 reviews
Brian Greene
Vintage, 2000
Excellent resource for the layman....
+ The Elegant Universe
+ The Final Universe
+ Quantum Foam and Hidden Dimensions
+ Don't know if its the subject matter or Greene...
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Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions151 reviews
Lisa Randall
Harper Perennial, 2006
Groundbreaking Physics in Beautiful Prose
+ Very clear, balanced intro to modern physics and its frontiers
+ Four reasons to purchase
+ Why I was interested in science in the first place
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Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics 28 reviews
Bruce A. Schumm
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
Review for physicists
+ Higgs boson, explained at last!
+ World-class teaching
+ extraordinary!
+ Not for the average joe
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The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers11 reviews
Alan Lightman
Vintage, 2006
Gazing into the mind of great scientists...
+ The original papers are not the best in the book
+ Discoveries which change the way Mankind understands the world
+ a good format to introduce scientifi papers
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A Brief History of Time352 reviews
Stephen Hawking
Bantam, 1998
Transport yourself into possibility.
+ Highly recommended to everybody interested in Astronomy and Nuclear Physics
This book absolutely recreates the wonder I felt looking at the stars as a child. Stephen Hawking has a knack like no other I have read in the science world of transporting the reader to a realm of humbling amazement and possibility. Pure genius bubbling over with dry humor that will never fail to ...
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Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics 24 reviews
Amir D. Aczel
Basic Books, 2002
So Easy to Understand it should be a Gradeschool text
This book makes the understanding of the greatest ideas in science as expressed mathematically that it should be taught to gradeschoolers. It gives anyone who has ever breezed over the commutative property of addition/multiplication in math as simply fundamental, and without depth, a real ...
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Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics24 reviews
Amir D. Aczel
Basic Books, 2002
So Easy to Understand it should be a Gradeschool text
This book makes the understanding of the greatest ideas in science as expressed mathematically that it should be taught to gradeschoolers. It gives anyone who has ever breezed over the commutative property of addition/multiplication in math as simply fundamental, and without depth, a real ...
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Deep Down Things: The Breathtaking Beauty of Particle Physics28 reviews
Bruce A. Schumm
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
Review for physicists
+ Higgs boson, explained at last!
+ World-class teaching
+ extraordinary!
+ Not for the average joe
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory505 reviews
Brian Greene
Vintage, 2000
Excellent resource for the layman....
+ The Elegant Universe
+ The Final Universe
+ Quantum Foam and Hidden Dimensions
+ Don't know if its the subject matter or Greene...
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A Briefer History of Time65 reviews
Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow
Bantam, 2005
Non-Fiction for Science Fiction Lovers
+ Wonderful
+ Brief, informative, enjoyable
+ Great read!!!
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Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries Tag: Author of In Search of ...32 reviews
John Gribbin
Back Bay Books, 1996
12 years old, still 96% relevant
+ An excellent review of quantum physics and reality
+ My Head Spun Afterwards...but it was a Good Spin!
+ OK, but Gribbin's In Search of Schrodingers Cat is Better.
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Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions151 reviews
Lisa Randall
Harper Perennial, 2006
Groundbreaking Physics in Beautiful Prose
+ Very clear, balanced intro to modern physics and its frontiers
+ Four reasons to purchase
+ Why I was interested in science in the first place
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The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers11 reviews
Alan Lightman
Vintage, 2006
Gazing into the mind of great scientists...
+ The original papers are not the best in the book
+ Discoveries which change the way Mankind understands the world
+ a good format to introduce scientifi papers
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A Brief History of Time352 reviews
Stephen Hawking
Bantam, 1998
Transport yourself into possibility.
+ Highly recommended to everybody interested in Astronomy and Nuclear Physics
This book absolutely recreates the wonder I felt looking at the stars as a child. Stephen Hawking has a knack like no other I have read in the science world of transporting the reader to a realm of humbling amazement and possibility. Pure genius bubbling over with dry humor that will never fail to ...
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