|  | Author: Frank Wilczek
Publisher: Basic Books
List Price: $26.95
Buy New: $2.50
as of 11/22/2009 15:54 CST details
You Save: $24.45 (91%)
New (45) Used (28) Collectible (2) from $1.92
Seller: book-a-lot
Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 41113
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 292
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0465003214
Dewey Decimal Number: 531
EAN: 9780465003211
ASIN: 0465003214
Publication Date: August 25, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! NEW Book! May have remainder mark. Most orders ship within 1 BUSINESS DAY with ORDER CONFIRMATION. Great Book at a Great Value!
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 16-20 of 28
 Lightness of confusion January 30, 2009
Anonymous (Plantation, FL)
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I'm no physicist but I consider myself to be fairly intelligent and have always been interested in physics, astronomy, and science in general. The book starts off very fun and easy to understand but quickly becomes very confusing and hard to read. By the time the author starts talking about quarks, gluons, partons, and virtual photons I found myself having to re-read over and over again to understand. I'm currently in chapter 7 and not sure if I should keep on reading because I have lost a lot of interest since I just don't get what he's talking about with Quantum Chromo Dynamics and "Asymptotic Freedom." I'm sure some Einstein wannabes are just going to say that I'm retarded or something but this is a bit too much for me. Too bad because I really wanted to understand more about what "IT" is. Buy the book and read it only if you are a Physics professor or something like that.
Interesting book January 18, 2009
James the Reviewer (New York, NY)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book is easy to read. That is rare, especially in a field like modern physics, where the concepts can get hard quickly.
If you are interested in modern physics and want a quick and well-written overview of what is going on in the field, I would get this book.
 The Lightness of Reading a Nobel Laureate's Writings December 2, 2008
C. L. Vash (Altadena, CA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the clearest explanation of multitudes of basic theoretical elements for NON-experts in physics that I've ever read! And while he openly admits to no great desire to integrate science with art and/or an abstract (non-personified) form of religion, I sense a couple of starter-possibilities someone else might use in trying that. Already I've gone on to his earlier book -- Longing for the Harmonies -- to search for more clarity on several relevant ideas. Right now, Wilczek is right up there near Henry Stapp on my ranking of best-tentative-directions-in-grasping a multiverse that MAY have started with MIND versus MATTER but so far we really don't know which.
The best fundamental physics book in a generation. November 13, 2008
Varro (SF Bay Area)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book reaches out to a wide audience: communicating with wit, skill, and remarkable truthfulness. In this it is better than any other popular account of fundamental physical reality that I know--bringing you into the mind of a top-level theorist, connecting you with how he thinks, what is actually known, what the questions are, what will be learned in the next few years. The book is intense, entertaining, extremely honest. There is no BS. Bob Laughlin said it: the book is both fun, and *right*.
Quite technical, but very interesting October 30, 2008
Amazon Fan (FL/MA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
The author is a very brilliant person. This book is not light reading. On the other hand, the subject matter is quite complex. For physicists, the book is a five plus. I am glad that I labored through it, although at times, I was tempted to put it aside. It took a lot of work and concentration to read it.
Showing reviews 16-20 of 28
|
|
|
