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    • How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics
    • By: Paul Halpern
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 490 ratings
    • Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger were friends and comrades-in-arms against what they considered the most preposterous aspects of quantum physics: its indeterminacy....

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    • How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World
    • By: Sean Carroll
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 399 ratings
    • Scientists have just announced an historic discovery on a par with the splitting of the atom: The Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists has been found....

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    • Finding Nature's Deep Design
    • By: Frank Wilczek
    • Narrated by: Frank Wilczek
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question"....

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    • The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
    • By: Michael Brooks
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,565 ratings
    • In 13 Things That Don't Make Sense, Michael Brooks heads to the scientific frontier to meet thirteen modern-day anomalies and discover tomorrow's breakthroughs....

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    • The Hidden 95% of the Universe
    • By: Brian Clegg
    • Narrated by: Mark Cameron
    • Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial five per cent of everything....

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    • A Journey to the Frontiers Where Science and Buddhism Meet
    • By: Matthieu Ricard, Trinh Xuan Thuan
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Matthieu Ricard trained as a molecular biologist, working in the lab of a Nobel prize-winning scientist, but when he read some Buddhist philosophy, he became drawn to Buddhism. Trinh Thuan was born into a Buddhist family in Vietnam, but he became intrigued by astronomy during the 1960s....

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    • A Guide for the Perplexed
    • By: Jim Al-Khalili
    • Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 429 ratings
    • From Schrodinger's cat to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, this book untangles the weirdness of the quantum world....

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    • Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
    • By: Roger Penrose
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • 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". He examines what physics can tell us....

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    • Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter
    • By: Govert Schilling
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Book of the BBC TV Series Presented by Professor Brian Cox
    • By: Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox - foreword
    • Narrated by: Brian Cox, Professor Jot Davies
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Andrew Cohen takes listeners on a voyage of discovery via the probes and telescopes exploring the outer reaches of our galaxy, revealing how it was formed and how it will inevitably be destroyed by the enigmatic black hole at its heart....

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    • By: Fritjof Capra
    • Narrated by: Michael McConnohoi
    • Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-00
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 485 ratings
    • "Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science; but man needs them both." These are the words of Fritjof Capra...

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    • Practical Progress Towards a Theory of Everything
    • By: Don Lincoln
    • Narrated by: Daniel Henning
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Einstein's Unfinished Dream explores the cutting-edge research of modern particle physicists that pushes us slowly towards a theory of everything....

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    • The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
    • By: M. Mitchell Waldrop
    • Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 276 ratings
    • In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Peter Coles
    • Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This nontechnical introduction to cosmology, or the creation and development of the universe, explains the discipline, covers its history, details the latest developments, and explains what is known, what is believed, and what is purely speculative....

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    • By: Lee Smolin
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
    • Lee Smolin provides an accessible overview of the attempts to build a final "theory of everything." He explains in simple terms what scientists are talking about when they say the world is made from exotic entities such as loops, strings, and black holes....

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    • The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
    • By: Adam Becker
    • Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 705 ratings
    • The untold story of the heretical thinkers who dared to question the nature of our quantum universe....

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    • A Guide to the Unknown Universe
    • By: Jorge Cham, Daniel Whiteson
    • Narrated by: Daniel Whiteson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 302 ratings
    • Prepare to learn everything we still don’t know about our strange and mysterious Universe. Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore - there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works....

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    • Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos
    • By: John Brockman
    • Narrated by: Antony Ferguson, Danny Campbell, Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • In The Universe, today's most influential science writers explain the science behind our evolving understanding of The Universe and everything in it....

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