
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe
Space, Time, and Motion
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"A porthole into another world."—Scientific American
The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll, with his genius for making complex notions entertaining, presents in his uniquely lucid voice the fundamental ideas informing the modern physics of reality.
Physics offers deep insights into the workings of the universe but those insights come in the form of equations that often look like gobbledygook. Sean Carroll shows that they are really like meaningful poems that can help us fly over sierras to discover a miraculous multidimensional landscape alive with radiant giants, warped space-time, and bewilderingly powerful forces. High school calculus is itself a centuries-old marvel as worthy of our gaze as the Mona Lisa. And it may come as a surprise the extent to which all our most cutting-edge ideas about black holes are built on the math calculus enables.
No one else could so smoothly guide listeners toward grasping the very equation Einstein used to describe his theory of general relativity. In the tradition of the legendary Richard Feynman lectures presented sixty years ago, this book is an inspiring, dazzling introduction to a way of seeing that will resonate across cultural and generational boundaries for many years to come.
* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF with equations and visual elements from the book.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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What is life? What is my place in it? What choices do these questions obligate me to make? More than a half-century after it burst upon the intellectual scene - with roots that extend to the mid-19th century - Existentialism's quest to answer these most fundamental questions of individual responsibility, morality, and personal freedom, life has continued to exert a profound attraction.
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Good for even a non-existentialist
- De Gary en 07-24-15
De: Robert C. Solomon, y otros
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The Matter of Everything
- How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World
- De: Suzie Sheehy
- Narrado por: Suzie Sheehy
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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Physics has always been engaged in the pursuit of expanding our knowledge of the nature of matter and the world around us. But how can you use experiments to further this quest? How do you measure the mass of a particle a trillion times smaller than a grain of sand? And, finally, why is all this important? In The Matter of Everything, accelerator physicist Suzie Sheehy introduces us to the people who, through a combination of genius, persistence and luck, staged the experiments that changed the course of history.
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Outstanding History of Curiosity-Driven Science
- De Ryan en 04-29-23
De: Suzie Sheehy
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The Book of Why
- The New Science of Cause and Effect
- De: Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 15 h y 14 m
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"Correlation does not imply causation". This mantra has been invoked by scientists for decades and has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed causality - the study of cause and effect - on a firm scientific basis.
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Great book! Not a great audiobook.
- De rrwright en 05-30-18
De: Judea Pearl, y otros
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How To
- Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
- De: Randall Munroe
- Narrado por: Wil Wheaton
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.
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Bad Ideas So BAD They Are NEARLY Irresistable! 🤓
- De C. White en 09-03-19
De: Randall Munroe
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The Search for Exoplanets: What Astronomers Know
- De: The Great Courses, Joshua N. Winn
- Narrado por: Professor Joshua N. Winn
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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As recently as 1990, it seemed plausible that the solar system was a unique phenomenon in our galaxy. Thanks to advances in technology and clever new uses of existing data, now we know that planetary systems and possibly even a new Earth can be found throughout galaxies near and far.
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Fun across the universe
- De Mark en 01-08-16
De: The Great Courses, y otros
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
- De: Julian Jaynes
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 16 h y 1 m
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At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes' still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only 3,000 years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion - and indeed our future.
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An Archaelogical Expedition of Our Minds
- De Michael en 10-08-15
De: Julian Jaynes
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Determined
- A Science of Life Without Free Will
- De: Robert M. Sapolsky
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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Robert Sapolsky’s Behave, his now classic account of why humans do good and why they do bad, pointed toward an unsettling conclusion: We may not grasp the precise marriage of nature and nurture that creates the physics and chemistry at the base of human behavior, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Now, in Determined, Sapolsky takes his argument all the way, mounting a brilliant (and in his inimitable way, delightful) full-frontal assault on the pleasant fantasy that there is some separate self telling our biology what to do.
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Abridged - no Appendix!
- De Amazon Customer en 11-02-23
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Hello World
- Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
- De: Hannah Fry
- Narrado por: Hannah Fry
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
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Hello World takes us on a tour through the good, the bad, and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround us on a daily basis. Mathematician Hannah Fry reveals their inner workings, showing us how algorithms are written and implemented, and demonstrates the ways in which human bias can literally be written into the code. By weaving in relatable, real world stories with accessible explanations of the underlying mathematics that power algorithms, Hello World helps us to determine their power, expose their limitations, and examine whether they really are improvements.
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Disappointing and meandering book
- De Sc en 02-10-20
De: Hannah Fry
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Horizon
- De: Barry Lopez
- Narrado por: James Naughton
- Duración: 22 h y 53 m
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From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author’s travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica.
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Brilliant Wise and Thought Provoking
- De findley en 05-04-19
De: Barry Lopez
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The Science of Interstellar
- De: Kip Thorne
- Narrado por: Eric Michael Summerer
- Duración: 6 h y 58 m
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Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the physicist who assisted Nolan on the scientific aspects of Interstellar, shows us that the movie's jaw-dropping events and stunning, never-before-attempted visuals are grounded in real science. Thorne shares his experiences working as the science adviser on the film and then moves on to the science itself.
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Book is awesome, Audible is no help with the PDF
- De Babak Saberi en 03-19-15
De: Kip Thorne
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The Many Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics
- De: Sean Carroll, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Sean Carroll
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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In a field known for startling ideas, the Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics may take the prize. It holds that parallel to our own world are a large number of other universes, almost identical to ours but with small variations. Copies of each of us inhabit a myriad of these worlds. But they are not us exactly; they share our past history, but they are different people who have unique futures. Although these realms are invisible and can’t communicate with each other, prominent physicists are convinced they must exist.
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Sean Carroll always has such amazing content
- De Amazon Customer en 12-26-23
De: Sean Carroll, y otros
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The Devil's Element
- Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
- De: Dan Egan
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
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Phosphorus has played a critical role in some of the most lethal substances on earth: firebombs, rat poison, nerve gas. But it’s also the key component of one of the most vital: fertilizer, which has sustained life for billions of people.
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Exceptionally well crafted
- De DJJ en 03-30-23
De: Dan Egan
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Unacknowledged
- An Exposé of the World’s Greatest Secret
- De: Steven M. Greer MD
- Narrado por: William Hughes
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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The biggest lie in history is about to be shattered. UFOs are real. In late June of 1947, three extraterrestrial craft were downed outside Roswell Air Force Base. Many more followed, revealing dozens of ET species and a Rosetta Stone to a new physics, an energy generation and propulsion system responsible for interstellar space travel. This new system could have easily replaced oil, gas, coal, and nuclear plants - and with them, the entire geopolitical and economic order on our planet. But a cabal of bankers, the military-industrial complex, and Big Oil stopped it.
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One Of Those Must Buy Phenomenal Rare Books
- De Vitaly en 11-09-17
A Born Teacher
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Wonderful teacher!
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The story is well-written and well-read, with some humor. I understood the math; I just needed to see it on paper to make it permanent.
Not suited to just listening — need the paper version
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Well put together
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Works as audiobook
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The most difficult thinking I have done in years.
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Brilliant ! Sean makes the difficult seem easy.
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Although Sean has touched on all of this material before, for the first time ever we get a conceptual understanding of the math. It's like a journey into history's greatest minds from their perspectives. Audible says I've spent a solid 2 months of my life 🎧 to The Big Picture, Something Deeply Hidden and The Great Courses. All time well spent. For even more, be sure to check out his podcast, Mindscape.
If your interested in how things really work on a fundamental level Sean is the greatest teacher alive. On par with Feynman and Wheeler. You won't be disappointed in this purchase. Just push play and let Sean's characteristic voice take you on an epic adventure from the fundamentals of physics all the way out the the unexplored fringes of nature. Sean is a true poetic naturalist.
Mentally Stimulating
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Reminds me of the Feynman lectures
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It's okay
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