Books by Frank Close
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review 1: Pop culture uses a lot of science buzzwords that it doesn't well understand. Words like "quantum mechanics", "relativity" and "antimatter" get thrown around all the time in books, action movies, and science fiction with very little awareness of their reality. Though it is a great...
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review 1: I have always been fascinated with modern theoretical physics. The discovery of a remarkable sub atomic world that seemingly does not operate by the same set of natural laws as the visible world has challenged our most basic beliefs on life. Is it really possible that the world...
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review 1: A great work of popular science writing, just the right level of depth. Close tells the story of the elementary particle known as the neutrino and the many scientists who studied it. At its least interesting, it reads like particularly friendly physics textbook. I most enjoyed re...