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The second kind of impossible : the extraordinary quest for a new form of matter / Paul J. Steinhardt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2019]Copyright date: 2019Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781476729923
  • 1476729921
  • 9781476729930
  • 147672993X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 530.4/1 23
LOC classification:
  • QC176 .S76 2019
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.
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book Library 530-2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available AT-ISTA#001737
Book Book Library 530-2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available AT-ISTA#001684
Total holds: 0

Includes index

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.

"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.

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