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The second kind of impossible : the extraordinary quest for a new form of matter / Paul J. Steinhardt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steinhardt, Paul J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Solid state physics.
- Physicists--Diaries.
- Physicists.
- Interstellar matter.
- Matter.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- Diaries.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [2019]
- Summary:
- "One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible reads like James Gleick's Chaos combined with an Indiana Jones adventure"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Impossible!
- The Penrose puzzle
- Finding the loophole
- A tale of two laboratories
- Something exciting to show you
- Perfectly impossible
- Did nature beat us?
- Luca
- Quasi-happy new year
- When you say impossible
- Blue team vs. red team
- A capricious if not overtly malicious God
- The secret secret diary
- Valery Kryachko
- Something rare surrounding something impossible
- Icosahedrite
- Lost
- Found
- Ninety-nine percent
- Beating the odds
- L'uomo dei miracoli
- Nature's secret.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781476729923
- 1476729921
- 9781476729930
- 147672993X
- OCLC:
- 989964529
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