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    The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
    The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
    The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
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    The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science

    Written by Marcus Chown

    Narrated by Marcus Chown

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    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 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 the elusive neutrino, 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFaber & Faber
    Release dateFeb 18, 2020
    ISBN9780571360567
    The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
    Author

    Marcus Chown

    Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Brunel University. His books include Breakthrough, The Ascent of Gravity, which was the Sunday Times 2017 Science Book of the Year; Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand; What A Wonderful World; Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You; We Need to Talk About Kelvin and Afterglow of Creation, both of which were runners-up for the Royal Society Book Prize. Marcus has also won the Bookseller's Digital Innovation of the Year for Solar System for iPad.

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