String Theory
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Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime
- By: Benjamin Schumacher, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Benjamin Schumacher
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
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In Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime, you will travel to the very edges of modern physics to explore several revolutionary theories and discover that physics is just as exciting today as it was when Newton sat by that fateful apple tree....
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Good freshman high school lecture
- By Ron A. Parsons on 01-29-19
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Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime
- Narrated by: Benjamin Schumacher
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 12-05-18
- Language: English
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In Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime, you will travel to the very edges of modern physics to explore several revolutionary theories and discover that physics is just as exciting today as it was when Newton sat by that fateful apple tree....
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Gravity's Century
- From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
- By: Ron Cowen
- Narrated by: John Patrick Walsh
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scientists at the origins of relativity, the development of radio telescopes, the discovery of black holes and quasars, and more....
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Good stuff
- By Amazon Customer on 10-30-20
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Gravity's Century
- From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
- Narrated by: John Patrick Walsh
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 05-06-19
- Language: English
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A sweeping account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and scientists at the origins of relativity, the development of radio telescopes, the discovery of black holes and quasars, and more....
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The Trouble with Physics
- The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
- By: Lee Smolin
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
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In this illuminating book, the renowned theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that fundamental physics - the search for the laws of nature - is losing its way....
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Strings snipped
- By J B Tipton on 06-06-10
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The Trouble with Physics
- The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 06-01-10
- Language: English
- In this illuminating book, the renowned theoretical physicist Lee Smolin argues that fundamental physics - the search for the laws of nature - is losing its way....
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Spooky Action at a Distance
- The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time-and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything
- By: George Musser
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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What is space? It isn't a question that most of us normally stop to ask. Space is the venue of physics; it's where things exist, where they move and take shape....
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Rambling but Asks Good Questions
- By Michael on 12-19-15
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Spooky Action at a Distance
- The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time-and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 11-03-15
- Language: English
- What is space? It isn't a question that most of us normally stop to ask. Space is the venue of physics; it's where things exist, where they move and take shape....
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Cycles of Time
- An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
- By: Roger Penrose
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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From the best-selling author of The Emperor’s New Mind and The Road to Reality, a groundbreaking book that provides new views on three of cosmology’s most profound questions....
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Difficult, Awe-inducing and Fascinating
- By Darkcoffee on 05-29-11
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Cycles of Time
- An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 05-03-11
- Language: English
- From the best-selling author of The Emperor’s New Mind and The Road to Reality, a groundbreaking book that provides new views on three of cosmology’s most profound questions....
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The Devil's Delusion
- Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions
- By: David Berlinski
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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Militant atheism is on the rise. In response, mathematician David Berlinski, himself a secular Jew, delivers a biting defense of religious thought....
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Riddled With Problems
- By Ben on 11-01-13
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The Devil's Delusion
- Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 08-30-13
- Language: English
- Militant atheism is on the rise. In response, mathematician David Berlinski, himself a secular Jew, delivers a biting defense of religious thought....
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Dreams of a Final Theory
- The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
- By: Steven Weinberg
- Narrated by: Stuart Langton
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Intellectually daring, rich in anecdote and aphorism, Dreams of a Final Theory launches us into a new cosmos and helps us make sense of what we find there....
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Informative
- By Roy on 08-03-09
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Dreams of a Final Theory
- The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
- Narrated by: Stuart Langton
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-23-09
- Language: English
- Intellectually daring, rich in anecdote and aphorism, Dreams of a Final Theory launches us into a new cosmos and helps us make sense of what we find there....
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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces
- Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
- By: Richard P. Feynman
- Narrated by: Richard P. Feynman
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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No 20th-century American scientist is better known to a wider spectrum of people than Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988), physicist, teacher, author, and cultural icon....
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Very Interesting, but ...
- By Doug on 01-01-06
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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces
- Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
- Narrated by: Richard P. Feynman
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 04-25-05
- Language: English
- No 20th-century American scientist is better known to a wider spectrum of people than Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988), physicist, teacher, author, and cultural icon....
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Einstein's Monsters
- The Life and Times of Black Holes
- By: Chris Impey
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Einstein’s Monsters reveals how our comprehension of black holes is intrinsically linked to how we make sense of the universe and our place within it....
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Above my brain grade
- By Amazon Customer on 12-02-21
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Einstein's Monsters
- The Life and Times of Black Holes
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 02-19-19
- Language: English
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Einstein’s Monsters reveals how our comprehension of black holes is intrinsically linked to how we make sense of the universe and our place within it....
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Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them
- A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity
- By: Antonio Padilla
- Narrated by: Antonio Padilla
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, the leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Antonio Padilla takes us on an irreverent cosmic tour of nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics, offering a startling picture of how the universe works....
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Exciting, Strange, Difficult = Meh
- By Michael on 05-23-23
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Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them
- A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity
- Narrated by: Antonio Padilla
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 07-26-22
- Language: English
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In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, the leading theoretical physicist and YouTube star Antonio Padilla takes us on an irreverent cosmic tour of nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics, offering a startling picture of how the universe works....
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Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
- The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum
- By: Lee Smolin
- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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A daring new vision of quantum theory from one of the leading minds of contemporary physics....
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Awesome Smolin
- By Michael on 05-14-19
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Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
- The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum
- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 04-09-19
- Language: English
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A daring new vision of quantum theory from one of the leading minds of contemporary physics....
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Relativity for Beginners, the Special and the General Theory
- The 3 Bizarre Discoveries You Must Know to Master Einstein’s Relativity Fast, Revealed Step-by-Step (In Plain English)
- By: John Stoddard
- Narrated by: joel richards
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
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In this book, we will break through the confusion and reveal to you the most important ideas of Special and General Relativity, told through the amazing true story of just 3 bizarre discoveries – many of which resulted directly from Einstein’s wild imagination!
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- By mark doyle on 05-24-24
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Relativity for Beginners, the Special and the General Theory
- The 3 Bizarre Discoveries You Must Know to Master Einstein’s Relativity Fast, Revealed Step-by-Step (In Plain English)
- Narrated by: joel richards
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-20-23
- Language: English
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In this book, we will break through the confusion and reveal to you the most important ideas of Special and General Relativity, told through the amazing true story of just 3 bizarre discoveries – many of which resulted directly from Einstein’s wild imagination!
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Albert Einstein, Creator & Rebel
- By: Banesh Hoffmann, Helen Dukas
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Written by a friend and scientific collaborator with Albert Einstein, this remarkable study is a model of what a biography of a scientist should be....
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Loved the weave of the story and science.
- By David Stoffel on 04-23-20
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Albert Einstein, Creator & Rebel
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 09-01-11
- Language: English
- Written by a friend and scientific collaborator with Albert Einstein, this remarkable study is a model of what a biography of a scientist should be....
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The Quantum Moment
- How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty
- By: Robert P. Crease, Alfred Scharff Goldhaber
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstream....
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Interesting
- By Jean on 11-02-14
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The Quantum Moment
- How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 10-13-14
- Language: English
- The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstream....
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
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Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....
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Surprise: Two books in one!
- By Henrik on 04-20-07
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Einstein
- His Life and Universe
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 03-28-07
- Language: English
- Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos....
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Synchronicity
- The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
- By: Paul Halpern
- Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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From Aristotle's Physics to quantum teleportation, learn about the scientific pursuit of instantaneous connections in this insightful examination of our world....
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Good enough for lay audience, but lacks depth
- By James S. on 10-12-20
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Synchronicity
- The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect
- Narrated by: Jeff Hoyt
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-18-20
- Language: English
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From Aristotle's Physics to quantum teleportation, learn about the scientific pursuit of instantaneous connections in this insightful examination of our world....
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The Red Limit
- The Search for the Edge of the Universe
- By: Timothy Ferris
- Narrated by: Timothy Ferris
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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For centuries, it was assumed that our universe was static. In the late 1920s, astronomers defeated this assumption with a startling new discovery....
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The Red Limit
- The Search for the Edge of the Universe
- Narrated by: Timothy Ferris
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 11-17-17
- Language: English
- For centuries, it was assumed that our universe was static. In the late 1920s, astronomers defeated this assumption with a startling new discovery....
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Losing the Nobel Prize
- A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
- By: Brian Keating
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made, revealed that they'd glimpsed the spark that ignited the Big Bang - or so they'd thought....
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The breakthrough, and a roller coaster ride...
- By Jmona on 02-17-19
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Losing the Nobel Prize
- A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 09-30-18
- Language: English
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What would it have been like to be an eyewitness to the Big Bang? In 2014, astronomers wielding BICEP2, the most powerful cosmology telescope ever made, revealed that they'd glimpsed the spark that ignited the Big Bang - or so they'd thought....
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The Universe in Your Hand
- A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
- By: Christophe Galfard
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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The Universe in Your Hand employs the immediacy of simple, direct language to show us, not explain to us, the theories that underpin everything we know about our universe....
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Awesome
- By AJ on 02-28-17
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The Universe in Your Hand
- A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 04-07-16
- Language: English
- The Universe in Your Hand employs the immediacy of simple, direct language to show us, not explain to us, the theories that underpin everything we know about our universe....
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The Prime Number Conspiracy
- The Biggest Ideas in Math from Quanta
- By: Thomas Lin - editor, James Gleick - foreword
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs
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These stories from Quanta Magazine map the routes of mathematical exploration, showing listeners how cutting-edge research is done, while illuminating the productive tension between conjecture and proof, theory and intuition....
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Better [more relevant] than you might expect.
- By James S. on 09-30-19
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The Prime Number Conspiracy
- The Biggest Ideas in Math from Quanta
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 06-25-19
- Language: English
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These stories from Quanta Magazine map the routes of mathematical exploration, showing listeners how cutting-edge research is done, while illuminating the productive tension between conjecture and proof, theory and intuition....
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