The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose
eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power.
'An excellent popular science book.'
DARA Ó BRIAIN
'A thoroughly informative and entertaining read.'
ANNA BURNS, Booker Prize-winning author of
Milkman
'One of the best-written books about phsyics I have ever come across.'
POPULAR SCIENCE
'Highly entertaining and accessible.'
IRISH TIMES
'Fascinating, life enhancing entertainment.'
PROSPECT
'Thoroughly enjoyable . . . Chown has down it again.'
BBC SKY AT NIGHT
The Magicians takes us on a breathtaking, mind-altering tour of the
eureka! moments of modern physics. Charting the spellbinding stories of the scientists who predicted and discovered the existence of unknown planets, black holes, invisible force fields, ripples in the fabric of space-time, unsuspected subatomic particles and even antimatter, Marcus Chown reveals science's greatest mystery: its astonishing predictive power.
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Subtopic
Essays on ScienceIndex
Biological SciencesTable of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Introduction: The central magic of science
- 1: Map of the invisible world
- 2: Voices in the sky
- 3: Mirror, mirror on the wall
- 4: Goldilocks universe
- 5: Ghost busters
- 6: The day without a yesterday
- 7: The holes in the sky
- 8: The god of small things
- 9: The voice of space
- 10: The poetry of logical ideas
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
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