![]() ![]() ![]() Steven Pinker, Johnson Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Enlightenment Now If you were to go back just two hundred years and tell people what we knew, from the origins of the universe to the molecular basis of life, and how weird and unintuitive nature is at the atomic scale, they would think we were crazy. Read moreĪ gorgeous and inviting overview of the fundamental facts of physical reality. Brilliant, lucid, and accessible, this celebration of human ingenuity and imagination will expand your world and your mind. He excavates the history of fundamental science, exploring what we know and how we know it, while journeying to the horizons of the scientific world to give us a glimpse of what we may soon discover. Synthesizing basic questions, facts, and dazzling speculations, Wilczek investigates the ideas that form our understanding of the universe- time, space, matter, energy, complexity, and complementarity. Through these pages, we come to see our reality in a new way-bigger, fuller, and stranger than it looked before. and an infectious sense of joy, he guides us through the essential concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how it works. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist offers ten insights that illuminate all you need to know about the Universe In Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. ![]()
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