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A porthole into another world
Scientific American
The most trusted explainer of the most mindboggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blocks of modern science Sean Carroll with his genius for making complex notions entertaining presents in his uniquely lucid voice the fundamental ideas informing the modern physics of reality
Physics offers deep insights into the workings of the universe but those insights come in the form of equations that often look like gobbledygook Sean Carroll shows that they are really like meaningful poems that can help us fly over sierras to discover a miraculous multidimensional landscape alive with radiant giants warped spacetime and bewilderingly powerful forces High school calculus is itself a centuriesold marvel as worthy of our gaze as the Mona Lisa And it may come as a surprise the extent to which all our most cuttingedge ideas about black holes are built on the math calculus enables
No one else could so smoothly guide readers toward grasping the very equation Einstein used to describe his theory of general relativity In the tradition of the legendary Richard Feynman lectures presented sixty years ago this book is an inspiring dazzling introduction to a way of seeing that will resonate across cultural and generational boundaries for many years to come
This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF with equations and visual elements from the book
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