Fundamentals : ten keys to reality / Frank Wilczek.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735223790
- ISBN: 0735223793
- Physical Description: xviii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface: Born again -- Introduction -- What there is. There's plenty of space ; There's plenty of time ; There are very few ingredients ; There are very few laws ; There's plenty of matter and energy -- Beginnings and ends. Cosmic history is an open book ; Complexity emerges ; There's plenty more to see ; Mysteries remain ; Complementarity is mind-expanding -- Afterword: The long voyage home. |
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Subject: | Reality. Cosmology. SCIENCE / Physics. Reality. |
Genre: | Instructional and educational works. |
Frank Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 for work he did as a graduate student. He was among the earliest MacArthur fellows, and has won many awards both for his scientific work and his writing including the 2022 Templeton Prize. He is the author of A Beautiful Question, The Lightness of Being, Fantastic Realities, Longing for the Harmonies, and hundreds of articles in leading scientific journals. His "Wilczek's Universe" column appears regularly in the Wall Street Journal. Wilczek is the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founding director of the T. D. Lee Institute and chief scientist at the Wilczek Quantum Center in Shanghai, China, and a distinguished professor at Arizona State University and Stockholm University.