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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
'Sean Carroll has achieved something I thought impossible: a bridge between popular science and the mathematical universe of working physicists. Magnificent!'
Brian Clegg, author of Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World
Immense, strange and infinite, the world of modern physics often feels impenetrable…
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Sean Carroll has a marvellous talent for explaining complex issues in a comprehensible way. The current book is Volume 1 of his series The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, devoted to Space, Time and Motion. This book (and the two volumes to follow) is written for people who are interested in the conceptual ideas, supported by some mathematics. He does not shy away from equations because he believes that even non-professionals can learn serious science rather than being satisfied with facile analogies. It is at times a slow read because it is a book about modern physics. But for everyone…
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