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Buy now to get the Key Takeaways from Frank Wilczek's Fundamentals.
Sample Key Takeaways:
1) There is a common theme that runs through literature, philosophy, and theology that humans are insignificantly small when compared to the vastness of our universe. But when you look at humans, there are approximately 10 octillion atoms inside each of us. In essence, we are extremely vast as well.
2) Global Positioning System (GPS) is able to obtain our location...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"One of our great contemporary scientists presents ten insights that illuminate what every thinking person needs to know about what the world is and how it works. Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek's Fundamentals is built around a simple but profound idea: the models of the world we construct as children are practical and adequate for everyday life, but they do not bring in the surprising and mind-expanding revelations of modern science. To do that,...
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 499 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Posing the question "What should we be worried about?" to one hundred fifty of the world's greatest minds, this collection of responses reveals what about the present or the future worries each of them the most.
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