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The Magicians - Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science (Paperback)
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The Magicians - Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science (Paperback)
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Loot Price R345
Discovery Miles 3 450
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'Marcus Chown rocks!' Brian May How does it feel to know something
about the universe that no one has ever known before? And why is
mathematics so magically good at revealing nature's secrets? This
is the story of the magicians: the scientists who, using
mathematics, predicted the existence of unknown planets, black
holes, invisible force fields, ripples in the fabric of space-time,
unsuspected subatomic particles, and even antimatter. The journey
from prediction to proof transports us from seats of learning in
Paris and Cambridge to the war-torn Russian front, to bunkers
beneath nuclear reactors, observatories in Berlin and California,
and huge tunnels under the Swiss-French border. From
electromagnetism to Einstein's gravitational waves to Wolfgang
Pauli's elusive neutrino, acclaimed science writer Marcus Chown
takes us on a breathtaking, mind-altering tour of the major
breakthroughs of modern physics and highlights science's central
mystery: its astonishing predictive power.
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