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    • The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
    • By: Ananyo Bhattacharya
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 310 ratings
    • The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, man: John von Neumann....

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    • The Invention and Discovery of the 'God Particle'
    • By: Jim Baggott, Steven Weinberg - foreword
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • The hunt for the Higgs particle has involved the biggest, most expensive experiment ever. So exactly what is this particle? Why does it matter so much? Did the discovery announced on July 4, 2012 finish the search? And was finding it really worth all the effort? The short answer is yes....

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    • How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
    • By: Nancy Forbes, Basil Mahon
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 381 ratings
    • Two of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael Faraday (1791-1867) and James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). This is the story of how these two men - separated in age by 40 years - discovered the existence of the electromagnetic field....

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    • Making a New Science
    • By: James Gleick
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,625 ratings
    • James Gleick explains the theories behind the fascinating new science called chaos. Alongside relativity and quantum mechanics, it is being hailed as the 20th century's third revolution....

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    • By: Carlo Rovelli
    • Narrated by: Carlo Rovelli
    • Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,415 ratings
    • This playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics briskly explains Einstein's general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the Universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: J. L. Heilbron
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • How does the physics we know today link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects? Listen to learn more....

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    • By: Steven Weinberg
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • A wise, personal, and wide-ranging meditation on science and society by the Nobel Prize-winning author of To Explain the World....

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    • A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
    • By: Natalie Angier
    • Narrated by: Nike Doukas
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-07
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • Buckle up for a joy ride through physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy....

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    • Searching for the God Particle
    • By: Scientific American
    • Narrated by: Alex Boyles
    • Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • One of the biggest discoveries in physics, the quest for the Higgs boson demonstrates the value of a good theory. In 2012, a Higgs-like particle was found near the energies scientists predicted. Armed with better evidence and better questions, the scientific process continues....

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    • How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry
    • By: Mario Livio
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • The first extensive account of the mathematics of symmetry and order, The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved is told not through abstract formulas but in a beautifully written and dramatic account of the lives and work of some of the greatest and most intriguing mathematicians in history....

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    • Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe
    • By: John Hands
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 31 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • Cosmosapiens is a big-picture look at how human life emerged and evolved in the universe, incorporating the ideas of world-renowned experts....

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    • Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution
    • By: Carlo Rovelli, Erica Segre - translator, Simon Carnell - translator
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 553 ratings
    • One of the world's most renowned theoretical physicists, Carlo Rovelli has entranced millions of readers with his singular perspective on the cosmos. In Helgoland, he examines the enduring enigma of quantum theory....

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    • A New Theory of Time
    • By: Julian Barbour
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • In a universe filled by chaos and disorder, one physicist makes the radical argument that the growth of order drives the passage of time - and shapes the destiny of the universe....

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    • How Physicists Transformed Everyday Life
    • By: Brian Clegg
    • Narrated by: Mark Peachey
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet....

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    • By: Neil Theise
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • Nothing in the universe is more complex than life. Throughout the skies, in oceans, and across lands, life is endlessly on the move....

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    • How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
    • By: Lisa Randall
    • Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the world: its makeup, its evolution, and the fundamental forces that drive its operation....

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    • Science as a Source of Inspiration
    • By: Lothar Schäfer
    • Narrated by: Patrick Ross
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • This remarkable book clearly explains the concepts of quantum physics in order to show how science and spirituality are not separate....

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    • By: Jon Butterworth
    • Narrated by: Wayne Forester
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • Atom Land brings the impossibly small world of particle physics to life, taking listeners on a guided journey through the subatomic world. Listeners will sail the subatomic seas....

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    • Ten Keys to Reality
    • By: Frank Wilczek
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Frank Wilczek
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 385 ratings
    • One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the 10 profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world....

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    • The Exotic Physics of Everyday Objects
    • By: Chad Orzel
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Author Chad Orzel illuminates the strange phenomena lurking just beneath the surface of our ordinary lives by digging into the surprisingly complicated physics involved in his (and anyone's) morning routine....

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