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Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics (Revised)

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Title: Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics (Revised)
Author: Frank Wilczek
ISBN: 9780393305968
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1989
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good
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Science & Math 1649378

Publisher Description:
Devoted to sharing their own delight and awe before the fundamental mysteries of the cosmos, Frank Wilczek (winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics) and science writer Betsy Devine also have a serious purpose: to reveal to the lay reader how a heightened perception can respond to timeless themes of the physical universe. For example, they show that even the most exotic theories always confirm that physical laws are precisely the same throughout the universe, and they explain how we have learned that the most massive molten stars and the tiniest frozen particles are in physical harmony. In their descriptions of the workings of the half-known universe, Wilczek and Devine bring all of us face to face with the beauty of eternal order and the inevitability of rational ends and beginnings.