{"title":"Books by Frank Wilczek","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780141985770","title":"Fundamentals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical world\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFundamentals,\u003c\/i\u003e Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. With clarity and an infectious sense of joy, he guides us through the essential concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how it works. Through these pages, we come to see our reality in a new way--bigger, fuller, and stranger than it looked before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynthesizing basic questions, facts, and dazzling speculations, Wilczek investigates the ideas that form our understanding of the universe: time, space, matter, energy, complexity, and complementarity. He excavates the history of fundamental science, exploring what we know and how we know it, while journeying to the horizons of the scientific world to give us a glimpse of what we may soon discover. Brilliant, lucid, and accessible, this celebration of human ingenuity and imagination will expand your world and your mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56225687142773,"sku":"9780141985770","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141985770_1513f463-5d27-46ee-bfd5-00410fdfa550.jpg?v=1786011100"},{"product_id":"9789812566553","title":"FANTASTIC REALITIES","description":"With a contribution from Betsy DevineThe fantastic reality that is modern physics is open for your exploration, guided by one of its primary architects and interpreters, Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek.Some jokes, some poems, and extracts from wife Betsy Devine's sparkling chronicle of what it's like to live through a Nobel Prize provide easy entertainment. There's also some history, some philosophy, some exposition of frontier science, and some frontier science, for your lasting edification.49 pieces, including many from Wilczek's award-winning Reference Frame columns in Physics Today, and some never before published, are gathered by style and subject into a dozen chapters, each with a revealing, witty introduction.Profound ideas, presented with style: What could be better? 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As the quest to find the beauty embodied in the universe has connected all scientific pursuit, from Pythagoras to Einstein, Wilczek shows us just how deeply intertwined our ideas about beauty and art are with our understanding of the cosmos. \u003ci\u003eA Beautiful Question\u003c\/i\u003e is a mind-expanding book combining the age-old human quest for beauty with the age-old human quest for truth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311871799669,"sku":"9780718199463","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780718199463_4ecfaba6-c3f3-4cd7-9217-8b5eb115774e.jpg?v=1786014685"},{"product_id":"the-lightness-of-being","title":"The Lightness of Being","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Nobel-prize winning physicist takes on the essential question: what are we made of?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Our understanding of nature's deepest reality has changed radically, but almost without our noticing, over the past twenty-five years. Transcending the clash of older ideas about matter and space, acclaimed physicist Frank Wilczek explains a remarkable new discovery: matter is built from almost weightless units, and pure energy is the ultimate source of mass. He calls it \"The Lightness of Being.\" Space is no mere container, empty and passive. It is a dynamic Grid-a modern ether- and its spontaneous activity creates and destroys particles. This new understanding of mass explains the puzzling feebleness of gravity, and a gorgeous unification of all the forces comes sharply into focus.\u003ci\u003eThe Lightness of Being\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to explore the implications of these revolutionary ideas about mass, energy, and the nature of \"empty space.\" In it, Wilczek masterfully presents new perspectives on our incredible universe and envisions a new golden age of fundamental physics.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481603973493,"sku":"9780465018956","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780465018956.jpg?v=1786089882"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-frank-wilczek.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}