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Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking – review
Back in the Guardian (well, the Observer actually) with a review of Stephen Hawking’s final book . A couple of paragraphs didn’t make the edit; no complaints from me about that, but I put them here mainly for the sake of … Continue reading
Posted in Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Physics, Science, Writing
Tagged books, Guardian, reviews, science fiction, Stephen Hawking
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Playful Explorations
Originally posted on NearcticTraveller:
Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (And Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics by Jon Butterworth. The Experiment. New York. 2018. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy…
Book Review — Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics
Originally posted on Evilcyclist's Blog:
Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and Impossibly Small) World of Particle Physics by Jon Butterworth. Butterworth is a lecture in particle physics at a layman’s level. Butterworth is a physics professor…
Posted in Writing
Tagged A Map of the Invisible, books, reblog, reviews
Why use a map to tell the story?
The paperback edition of A Map of the Invisible is out now, and to help promote it we made a few videos on some of the themes in the book. Here’s the second one:
Posted in Particle Physics, Physics, Writing
Tagged A Map of the Invisible, books, video
