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What Is The Point Of Physics? |
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Impossible questions, unexpected rewards, and the never-ending quest for understanding |
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Progress, disorder and Einstein's elastic clocks |
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What Happened To Schrodinger's Cat? |
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Quantum physics and the nature of reality |
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Gravity, mass and the enigma of relativity |
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Atoms, quarks and solids that slip through your fingers |
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Why Is There No Such Thing As A Free Lunch? |
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Energy, entropy and the search for perpetual motion |
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Is Everything Ultimately Random? |
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Uncertainty, quantum reality and the probable role of statistics |
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What Is The God Particle? |
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The Higgs boson, the LHC and the search for the meaning of mass |
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The limits of our universe and the search for parallel worlds |
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Can We Travel Through Time? |
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Where relativity meets science fiction |
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Is Earth's Magnetic Shield Failing? |
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Drifting poles, the planet's churning core and the threat to life on Earth |
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114 | (9) |
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The equation that underpins the universe |
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Can I Change The Universe With A Single Glance? |
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Spooky quantum links and the chance to rewrite history |
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Does Chaos Theory Spell Disaster? |
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The butterfly effect's influence on weather, climate and the motions of the planets |
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A strange kind of wave, and an even stranger kind of particle |
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Is String Theory Really About Strings? |
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The vibrations that create our universe |
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Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? |
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The Big Bang, antimatter and the mystery of our existence |
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Do We Live In A Simulation? |
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Human nature, the laws of physics, and the march of technological progress |
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Which Is Nature's Strongest Force? |
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The ties that bind the universe, and their origin in the superforce |
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What Is The True Nature Of Reality? |
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Beyond the quantum world lies the realm of information |
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| Glossary |
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| Index |
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