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The Jazz of Physics
- The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
- By: Stephon Alexander
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander uses jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe....
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I tried and failed not to be disappointed
- By Your Old Pal Sisco on 01-16-17
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The Jazz of Physics
- The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 05-19-16
- Language: English
- Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander uses jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe....
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The Universe Speaks in Numbers
- How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
- By: Graham Farmelo
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between them....
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Great story and narration, but lacks rigor...
- By James S. on 05-31-19
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The Universe Speaks in Numbers
- How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
- Narrated by: Hugh Kermode
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 05-28-19
- Language: English
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One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between them....
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Knocking on Heaven's Door
- 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
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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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Too Political
- By Allan on 12-14-11
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Knocking on Heaven's Door
- How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 09-27-11
- Language: English
- 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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Why String Theory?
- By: Joseph Conlon
- Narrated by: Robbie Stevens
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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During the last 50 years, numerous physicists have tried to unravel the secrets of string theory. Yet why do these scientists work on a theory lacking experimental confirmation? Why String Theory? provides the answer....
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Unconvincing, but worth the reading
- By Jessica on 02-15-23
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Why String Theory?
- Narrated by: Robbie Stevens
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 06-07-22
- Language: English
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During the last 50 years, numerous physicists have tried to unravel the secrets of string theory. Yet why do these scientists work on a theory lacking experimental confirmation? Why String Theory? provides the answer....
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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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Quantum Supremacy
- How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
- By: Michio Kaku
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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The bestselling author of The God Equation takes an exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may supercharge artificial intelligence, solve some of humanity's biggest problems, like global warming, world hunger, and incurable disease.
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Title should have been “Quantum Global Warming”
- By Amazon Customer on 06-08-23
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Quantum Supremacy
- How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 05-02-23
- Language: English
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The bestselling author of The God Equation takes an exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement—quantum computing—which may supercharge artificial intelligence, solve some of humanity's biggest problems, like global warming, world hunger, and incurable disease.
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The Fabric of the Cosmos
- Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
- By: Brian Greene
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way....
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Avoid the abridged version
- By Dylan on 03-12-04
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The Fabric of the Cosmos
- Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 02-12-04
- Language: English
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From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way....
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Fear of a Black Universe
- An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics
- By: Stephon Alexander
- Narrated by: Stephon Alexander
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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In this important guide to science and society, a cosmologist argues that physics must embrace the excluded, listen to the unheard, and be unafraid of being wrong....
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Perfect for the advanced non-expert
- By Daniel Patrick on 05-17-23
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Fear of a Black Universe
- An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics
- Narrated by: Stephon Alexander
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-31-21
- Language: English
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In this important guide to science and society, a cosmologist argues that physics must embrace the excluded, listen to the unheard, and be unafraid of being wrong....
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The Little Book of Black Holes
- Science Essentials
- By: Steven S. Gubser, Frans Pretorius
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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Black holes, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties....
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Great read/listen
- By william on 01-24-18
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The Little Book of Black Holes
- Science Essentials
- Narrated by: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 10-13-17
- Language: English
- Black holes, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties....
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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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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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Fear of Physics
- By: Lawrence M. Krauss
- Narrated by: David Smalley, Lawrence M. Krauss
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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Fear of Physics is a lively, irreverent, and informative look at everything from the physics of boiling water to cutting-edge research at the observable limits of the universe....
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A nobility and a beauty to the search
- By Darwin8u on 08-16-16
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Fear of Physics
- Narrated by: David Smalley, Lawrence M. Krauss
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 01-06-15
- Language: English
- Fear of Physics is a lively, irreverent, and informative look at everything from the physics of boiling water to cutting-edge research at the observable limits of the universe....
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A Fortunate Universe
- Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos
- By: Geraint F. Lewis, Luke A. Barnes
- Narrated by: Geraint F. Lewis, Luke A. Barnes
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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Join us on a journey through how we understand the universe, from its most basic particles and forces to planets, stars, and galaxies, and back through cosmic history to the birth of the cosmos....
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Dubious but Interesting
- By Michael on 02-13-18
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A Fortunate Universe
- Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos
- Narrated by: Geraint F. Lewis, Luke A. Barnes
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 01-19-18
- Language: English
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Join us on a journey through how we understand the universe, from its most basic particles and forces to planets, stars, and galaxies, and back through cosmic history to the birth of the cosmos....
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The Accelerating Universe
- Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos
- By: Mario Livio
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams, says: The Accelerating Universe is not only an informative book about modern cosmology. It is rich storytelling and, above all, a celebration of the quest for beauty in all things....
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well written but not well argued
- By Seth K on 07-28-18
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The Accelerating Universe
- Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 03-09-18
- Language: English
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Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams, says: The Accelerating Universe is not only an informative book about modern cosmology. It is rich storytelling and, above all, a celebration of the quest for beauty in all things....
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Calculating the Cosmos
- How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
- By: Ian Stewart
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from our solar system to the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time....
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Crank alert: rejects modern cosmology
- By James Weisner on 03-20-17
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Calculating the Cosmos
- How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
- Narrated by: Dana Hickox
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 10-18-16
- Language: English
- In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from our solar system to the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time....
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God's Equation
- Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
- By: Amir D. Aczel
- Narrated by: Kent Broadhurst
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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The product of research around the globe and interviews with dozens of prominent scientists, God's Equation discusses the latest developments in cosmology, the study of the nature of the universe...
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Can't Get Into It...
- By Sarah on 09-29-03
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God's Equation
- Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
- Narrated by: Kent Broadhurst
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 11-30-00
- Language: English
- The product of research around the globe and interviews with dozens of prominent scientists, God's Equation discusses the latest developments in cosmology, the study of the nature of the universe...
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The Disappearing Spoon
- And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
- By: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....
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Great Book, Great Narration, But...
- By Henny Button on 09-18-10
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The Disappearing Spoon
- And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-18-10
- Language: English
- Science Magazine reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before....
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The Universe
- 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
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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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Equivalant to reading 25 books
- By Gary on 10-05-14
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The Universe
- Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson, Danny Campbell, Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 09-24-14
- Language: English
- 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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Robert Oppenheimer
- A Life Inside the Center
- By: Ray Monk
- Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
- Length: 35 hrs and 17 mins
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Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men....
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A comprehensive biography
- By Jean on 10-17-14
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Robert Oppenheimer
- A Life Inside the Center
- Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
- Length: 35 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 05-14-13
- Language: English
- Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men....
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First Light
- Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time
- By: Emma Chapman
- Narrated by: Emma Chapman
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Astronomers have successfully observed a great deal of the universe’s history, from recording the afterglow of the big bang to imaging thousands of galaxies, and even to visualising an actual black hole....
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Beanie babies, Mick Jagger and cutting edge cosmology
- By Charles on 05-17-22
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First Light
- Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time
- Narrated by: Emma Chapman
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 11-26-20
- Language: English
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Astronomers have successfully observed a great deal of the universe’s history, from recording the afterglow of the big bang to imaging thousands of galaxies, and even to visualising an actual black hole....
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