This book is about my own personal favourite puzzles and conundrums in science' Jim al-Khalili
'This book is about my own personal favourite puzzles and conundrums in science' Jim al-Khalili
Professor Jim Al-Khalili, OBE is an academic, author and broadcaster. He is a leading theoretical physicist based at the University of Surrey, where he teaches and carries out research in quantum mechanics. He has written a number of popular science books, translated so far into 20 languages, with his most recent being Pathfinders- The Golden Age of Arabic Science. He has presented several television and radio documentaries, including the BAFTA-nominated Chemistry- A Volatile History and The Secret Life of Chaos. He presents the weekly programme The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4. He was awarded the 2007 Royal Society Michael Faraday medal and the 2011 Institute of Physics Kelvin medal, both for his science communication work.
The wizardry of Jim Al-Khalili is irresistible. Marvel at the
mind-bending Zeno’s paradox! The amazing ambiguity of Schrödinger’s
Cat! The preposterous postulations of perpetual motion! The
extraterrestrial extrapolations of Fermi’s paradox! and other
wonders of physics, philosophy, even poetry. “I have had tremendous
fun writing this book,” says Professor Jim. Reading it is the best
fun you can have beyond a pop-science comic book and a home
particle accelerator
*The Times*
A master of making the complex simple
*Independent on Sunday*
Al-Khalili leads into the harder science, but does so with such
deceptive ease that before you know it you’re mulling over the
expanding universe, staring down quantum theory and pondering
Schrödinger’s Cat – and enjoying it
*Financial Times*
Al-Khalili is the ideal guide through these seeming mysteries of
modern science
*New Scientist*
[A] field guide to some of the most important and fascinating
conundrums in physics
*Science*
Readers who enjoy mental challenges and scientific mysteries will
have fun with Al-Khalili's lighthearted, accessible discussion.
*Publisher's Weekly*
intriguing and refreshing... Paradox is a workout for all but the
supplest of minds and an entertaining illustration of the power of
science to solve the seemingly unsolvable
*Engineering and Technology Magazine*
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