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A physicist speeds across space, time, and everything in between showing that our elegant universe from the Higgs boson to antimatter to the most massive group of galaxies is shaped by hidden symmetries that have driven all our recent discoveries about the universe and all the ones to come. Why is the sky dark at night? Is it possible to build a shrink-ray gun? If there is antimatter, can there be antipeople? Why are past, present, and future our only options? Are time and space like a butterfly's wings? No one but Dave Goldberg, the coolest nerd physicist on the planet, could give a hyper-drive tour of the universe like this one. Not only does he answer the questions your stoner friends came up with in college, but he also reveals the most profound discoveries of physics with infectious, Carl Sagan-like enthusiasm and accessibility.
Goldberg's narrative is populated with giants from the history of physics, and the biggest turns out to be an unsung genius and Nazi holocaust escapee named Emmy Noether- the other Einstein. She was unrecognized, even unpaid, throughout most of her career simply because she was a woman. Nevertheless, her theorem relating conservation laws to symmetries is widely regarded to be as important as Einstein's notion of the speed of light. Einstein himself said she was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began. Symmetry is the unsung great idea behind all the big physics of the last 100 years and what lies ahead. In this book, Goldberg makes mindbending science not just comprehensible but gripping. Fasten your seat belt.
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A brilliantly original and richly illuminating exploration of entanglement, the seemingly telepathic communication between two separated particles - one of the fundamental concepts of quantum physics.
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- De Michael en 02-14-10
De: Louisa Gilder
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The Science of Interstellar
- De: Kip Thorne
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the physicist who assisted Nolan on the scientific aspects of Interstellar, shows us that the movie's jaw-dropping events and stunning, never-before-attempted visuals are grounded in real science. Thorne shares his experiences working as the science adviser on the film and then moves on to the science itself.
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- De Babak Saberi en 03-19-15
De: Kip Thorne
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The Elephant in the Universe
- Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter
- De: Govert Schilling
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
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In The Elephant in the Universe, Govert Schilling explores the fascinating history of the search for dark matter. Evidence for its existence comes from a wealth of astronomical observations. Theories and computer simulations of the evolution of the universe are also suggestive: they can be reconciled with astronomical measurements only if dark matter is a dominant component of nature.
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- De Rich Smith en 11-24-23
De: Govert Schilling
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Why Does E=MC2 and Why Should We Care
- De: Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw
- Narrado por: Jeff Forshaw
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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In one of the most exciting and accessible explanations of The Theory of Relativity in recent years, Professors Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw go on a journey to the frontier of 21st century science to consider the real meaning behind the iconic sequence of symbols that make up Einstein's most famous equation, exploring the principles of physics through everyday life.
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- De Roy en 06-13-11
De: Brian Cox, y otros
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The Emperor's New Mind
- Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
- De: Roger Penrose
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 18 h y 27 m
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In this absorbing and frequently contentious book, Roger Penrose puts forward his view that there are some facets of human thinking that can never be emulated by a machine. The book's central concern is what philosophers call the "mind-body problem". Penrose examines what physics and mathematics can tell us about how the mind works, what they can't, and what we need to know to understand the physical processes of consciousness.
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- De john galt en 12-10-19
De: Roger Penrose
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The Lightness of Being
- Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
- De: Frank Wilczek
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
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Our understanding of nature's deepest reality has changed radically, but almost without our noticing, over the past 25 years. Transcending the clash of older ideas about matter and space, acclaimed physicist Frank Wilczek explains a remarkable new discovery: matter is built from almost weightless units, and pure energy is the ultimate source of mass. He calls it "The Lightness of Being." Space is no mere container, empty and passive. It is a dynamic Grid, modern ether, and its spontaneous activity creates and destroys particles.
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- De Scott en 11-30-14
De: Frank Wilczek
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At the Edge of Time
- Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe's First Seconds
- De: Dan Hooper
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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Scientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But there remains a critical gap in our knowledge: We still know very little about what happened in the first seconds after the Big Bang. At the Edge of Time focuses on what we have recently learned and are still striving to understand about this most essential and mysterious period of time at the beginning of cosmic history.
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Intriguing
- De Hans Schmidt en 05-11-23
De: Dan Hooper
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About Time
- Cosmology, Time and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
- De: Adam Frank
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
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The Big Bang is all but dead, and we do not yet know what will replace it. Our universe's "beginning" is at an end. What does this have to do with us here on Earth? Our lives are about to be dramatically shaken again - as altered as they were with the invention of the clock, the steam engine, the railroad, the radio and the Internet.
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More fluff than science
- De Ivan the Reviewer en 04-15-13
De: Adam Frank
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Relativity
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Russell Stannard
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 3 h y 47 m
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If you move at high speed, time slows down, space squashes up, and you get heavier. Travel fast enough and you could weigh as much as a jumbo jet, be flattened thinner than a CD without feeling a thing - and live forever! As for the angles of a triangle, they do not always have to add up to 180 degrees. And then, of course, there are black holes. These are but a few of the extraordinary consequences of Einstein's theory of relativity.
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Six Impossible Things
- The Mystery of the Quantum World
- De: John Gribbin
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 2 h y 19 m
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Rules of the quantum world seem to say that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time and a particle can be in two places at once. And that particle is also a wave; everything in the quantum world can described in terms of waves - or entirely in terms of particles. These interpretations were all established by the end of the 1920s, by Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and others. But no one has yet come up with a common sense explanation of what is going on.
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Captures difficult concepts with tongue in cheek
- De Ros en 10-24-23
De: John Gribbin
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The Drunkard's Walk
- How Randomness Rules Our Lives
- De: Leonard Mlodinow
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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In this irreverent and illuminating audiobook, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, chance, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives, and how we misunderstand the significance of everything from a casual conversation to a major financial setback. As a result, successes and failures in life are often attributed to clear and obvious causes, when in actuality they are more profoundly influenced by chance.
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Interested in statistics? This is the book.
- De Robert en 02-21-14
De: Leonard Mlodinow
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The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics
- A Math-Free Exploration of the Science That Made Our World
- De: James Kakalios
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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In The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics, James Kakalios uses examples from comics and magazines to explain how breakthroughs in quantum mechanics led to such technologies as the World Wide Web, pocket-sized computers, mobile phones, and MRI machines.....
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The exhibits are missing from Audible
- De David en 12-13-10
De: James Kakalios
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Universe in the Rearview Mirror
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- Michael
- 08-31-13
Good, but for whom?
This is a very light tone, very high level survey of a very wide range of symmetries in physics. This was a pleasant listen, but I did not learn a lot nor where there novel ideas that got me thinking, thus I ended up a bit disappointed. It was a nice for a very high level survey, but I am not sure what audience would appreciate this level of detail. It seems to me a lot of background in needed to understand a number of the symmetries but the book seems targeted at a pretty low level of knowledge. The author mentions the Twin Paradox and notes that the Twin Paradox is often misunderstood but then just drops it (why bring it up at all?). I wish he had explained how such a twin experiment would actually work, which has been misstated so many times, even scientists are confused about what really would happen. The narration was excellent with a wonderful light tone and a clear love of science that bubbled through. So, although there was a lot right and there is little wrong with this book, I did not quite find it worth the listen.
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- Niktas T. Vlahopoulos
- 04-01-18
Rivetting I found this book and perfor exceptional
singular and exceptional quality might be my favorite book so far in the audio library
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- 03-31-16
Very relatable
If you are fan of ELI5, explain it to me like I'm five, on reddit, you will love this book. Dave Goldberg provides a tour of the universe that is a mashup of Cracked.com, a classroom lecture with the professor who wants to be your best friend, and a serious physics book.
Goldberg focuses on the most fundamental symmetries in the universe (e.g. spin of a particle) and explains how the breaking of symmetry gives rise to everything we have ever or will ever see. You will not feel bogged down by memorizing particles in this book. His focus is more on spin and how spin (and a negative sign) are the reason you are alive. I loved this approach to viewing the universe.
His explanation of the Pauli exclusion principle and Hawking radiation were fabulous. He also spends quite a bit of time trying to understand how the universe went from a state of low entropy to high entropy. He states flat out that it is, 'just because it is," but then went on to examine it quite a few times in, what I found to be, satisfying ways.
This book seems like a much quicker read than some other books of the same length. His, almost too cheesy, humor and writing style keep each concept relatable and zooming along. Before you know it, you will be at the end of the book and will have understood it all without rereading it.
At the very end he supposed that the journey from low entropy to high was how life began. I understand that it was beyond the scope of this book. But I would have very much loved it if he took a little bit more time to discuss that further. The work of Mike Russle, Nick Lane, and others working on origin of life research at the hydrothermal vents are changing how humans view the star of evolution (thermodynamic process occurring at vents that push molecules through rocky membranes), and I think physicists should be taking part in that discussion to help the paradigm shift occur more swiftly.
This book was really great.
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- 01-21-18
Comprehensive and approachable
Besides the (really) bad physics nerd jokes, the book is very comprehensive, and proposes very interesting thought experiments.
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- James S.
- 01-10-22
Deep, profound, simple and funny
This is in my top 5 best physics audibles. The author uses what might be considered "dad humor" to lighten the delivery, and I was LOL'ing at somewhat regular intervals.
Though it's not as serious in tone as Brian Greene's and other physicists' works, it's just as deep, and the author's delivery is profoundly informative. He gives great explanations for why broken symmetries are so important, e.g. the role played by neutrinos in weak interactions, the Higgs field (and Mexican-hat potentials in general), the symmetry between EM and weak fields and how this broken symmetry is synonymous with H20 freezing into a snowflake (or specifically that the EM/weak field is a broken symmetry which is likely due to the vacuum of space being a frozen, superconducting field that had its full symmetries at millions of degrees Kelvin), etc.
At first I didn't think I would be able to handle the narrator's overly-exaggerated intonations, but I got used to them, until finally I started to realize I actually preferred his style - particularly for this audible; his reading style actually works very well to express the humor that the author intended, so it's a good pairing.
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- S. Cannon
- 03-28-19
Spends too much time trying to be humorous
Unfortunately, the time that he should spend explaining physics is all too often spent in telling jokes that aren't funny.
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