Key Insights From:
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
By Frank Wilczek
Audio Available |
12 Minute Read
Published: Jan 12, 2021
Key Insights From:
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
By Frank Wilczek
Audio Available |
12 Minute Read
Published: Jan 12, 2021
What You'll Learn:
A world of quarks, axions, electromagnetism, and dark matter, the field of quantum physics is mystifying. Even those who’ve never taken an introductory physics class are captivated by its ability to transport wonderers elsewhere—even if they only comprehend a fraction of what they hear. Author of A Beautiful Question and winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize for his work on asymptotic freedom, Frank Wilczek returns with a concise meditation on the tenets of contemporary science. Pulling resonant scientific facts from the challenging armor of mathematics, Wilczek’s work covers the lifespan of the universe, the wonder of dark matter, and the thorny dilemma of free will.
Key Insights:
- As thinkers pondered the sky, they saw much more than a handful of stars—they envisioned a new kind of knowledge.
- Galactic redshifts date our 13.8 billion-year-old universe.
- Democritus wasn’t dim—he understood that it doesn’t take much to get the universe up and running.
- Contemporary science has a spotlight on dark matter; axions may be a long-awaited answer.
- Throw your “Theory of Everything” down the drain—subversive oppositions are more compelling than the most resolute answers.
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