Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys And a Trip to Stockholm

by Frank Wilczek

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Podcast of Frank Wilczek and Betsy Devine's interview with Steve Mirsky of Scientific American The fantastic reality that is modern physics is open for your exploration, guided by one of its primary architects and interpreters, Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek.Some jokes, some poems, and extracts from wife Betsy Devine's sparkling chronicle of what it's like to live through a Nobel Prize provide easy entertainment. There's also some history, some philosophy, some exposition of frontier science, and some frontier science, for your lasting edification.49 pieces, including many from Wilczek's awa… (more)

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An understandable guide for those willing to work at it a little, by a Nobel Prize Winner. (

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hcubic | May 8, 2024 |

A Nobel laureate's terrific collection of relatively nontechnical but very meaty writings on particle physics (especially quantum chromodynamics -- quarks, gluons, asymptotic freedom, etc). I had already read the ones that originally appeared as columns in _Physics Today_.

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Podcast of Frank Wilczek and Betsy Devine's interview with Steve Mirsky of Scientific American The fantastic reality that is modern physics is open for your exploration, guided by one of its primary architects and interpreters, Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek.Some jokes, some poems, and extracts from wife Betsy Devine's sparkling chronicle of what it's like to live through a Nobel Prize provide easy entertainment. There's also some history, some philosophy, some exposition of frontier science, and some frontier science, for your lasting edification.49 pieces, including many from Wilczek's awa

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