Books by Paul Parsons
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review 1: When it comes to big science, very few things are conclusively known. From Quantum Mechanics to Natural Selection, what we have instead are theories - ideas explain why things happen the way they do. We don't know for certain these are correct - no one ever saw the Big Bang - but...
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review 1: A very intriguing reference to "the 50 most thought-provoking theories in Science." Containing a series of brief synopses of some very interesting and indeed thought-provoking theories from the more well known Theory of Relativity, Laws of Motion, and Global Warming; to the less...
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review 1: The scope of the book is so wide that inevitably its content is very shallow. The first chapters are somewhat clearer, without doubt because they treat with classical mechanics, but almost all the book is about “modern” physics: relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory, etc....