The second kind of impossible : the extraordinary quest for a new form of matter
P. J. Steinhardt
Bok · Engelsk · 2019
| Omfang | viii, 387 sider, 8 unummererte sider med plansjer : illustrasjoner
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| Utgave | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
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| Opplysninger | Impossible! -- The Penrose puzzle -- Finding the loophole -- A tale of two laboratories -- Something exciting to show you -- Perfectly impossible -- Did nature beat us? -- Luca -- Quasi-happy new year -- When you say impossible -- Blue team vs. red team -- A capricious if not overtly malicious God -- The secret secret diary -- Valery Kryachko -- Something rare surrounding something impossible -- Icosahedrite -- Lost -- Found -- Ninety-nine percent -- Beating the odds -- L'uomo dei miracoli -- Nature's secret.. - "One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible reads like James Gleick's Chaos combined with an Indiana Jones adventure"--
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| ISBN | 9781476729923. - 9781476729930
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