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Top Ten Ideas of Physics

Audiobook
Nonfiction: Science
Unabridged   12 hour(s)
Publication date: 06/17/2025

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Top Ten Ideas of Physics

Foundations for Understanding the Universe

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Digital Download ISBN:9781696617574

Summary

The ten biggest ideas in theoretical physics that have withstood the test of time.

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Product Description

Could any discovery be more unexpected and shocking than the realization that the reality we were born into is but an approximation of an underlying quantum world that is barely within our grasp? This is just one of the foundational pillars of theoretical physics that A. Zee discusses in this book. Join him as he presents his Top Ten List of the biggest, most breathtaking ideas in physics.

Top Ten Ideas of Physics tells a story that will keep listeners enthralled, along the way explaining the meaning of each idea and how it came about. Leading the list are the notions that the physical world is comprehensible and that the laws of physics are the same here, there, and everywhere. As the story unfolds, the apparently solid world dissolves into an intertwining web of dancing fields, exhibiting greater symmetries as we examine them at deeper and deeper levels. Listeners come to see how physical truth is universal, not relative, and how the forces in the multiverse are not disparate pieces but an indivisible unity—a vision only partially realized today.

With Zee's trademark blend of wit and physical insight, Top Ten Ideas of Physics reveals why the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics, why entropy and information are intimately linked, and why the action principle underpins the choreography of all that exists.

Author Bio

A. Zee is professor of physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His many books include Quantum Field Theory, as Simply as Possible; Fly by Night Physics; On Gravity; Group Theory in a Nutshell for Physicists; and Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell.