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Einstein's Intuition: Visualizing Nature in Eleven Dimensions
- By: Thad Roberts
- Narrated by: Jonathan Farkasofsky
- Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Roberts' model, called quantum space theory, has been praised for how it offers an intuitively accessible picture of 11 dimensions and for powerfully extending the insight of general relativity, eloquently translating the four forces into unique kinds of geometric distortions while offering us access to the underlying deterministic dynamics that give rise to quantum mechanics. That remarkably simple picture explains the mysteries of modern physics in a way that's fully commensurate with Einstein's Intuition.
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The mist clears to give us a new vista.
- By Francis Murphy on 28-02-2016
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Einstein's Intuition: Visualizing Nature in Eleven Dimensions
- Narrated by: Jonathan Farkasofsky
- Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 09-10-2015
- Language: English
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Smashing Physics
- Inside the Discovery of the Higgs Boson
- By: Jon Butterworth
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The first insider account of the work at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the discovery of the Higgs particle - and what it all means for our understanding of the laws of nature. The discovery of the Higgs boson made headlines around the world. Two scientists, Peter Higgs and François Englert, whose theories predicted its existence, shared a Nobel Prize. The discovery was the culmination of the largest experiment ever run, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
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Great recount of some amazing scientific history.
- By Will on 14-01-2015
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Smashing Physics
- Inside the Discovery of the Higgs Boson
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 22-07-2014
- Language: English
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Flatland
- A Romance of Many Dimensions
- By: Edwin A. Abbott
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The story is about a two-dimensional world referred to as Flatland. All existence is limited to length and breadth in Flatland, its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. The amiable narrator, A Square, provides an overview of this fantastic world---its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs, and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to Spaceland, a land of three dimensions, his worldview is forever shattered.
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using a two dimensional world to critique our spaceland
- By Anonymous on 16-01-2022
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Flatland
- A Romance of Many Dimensions
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 19-01-2010
- Language: English
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Ultimate Physics
- From Quarks to the Cosmos
- By: Scientific American
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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The fundamental outlines of the physical world, from its tiniest particles to massive galaxy clusters, have been apparent for decades. Does this mean physicists are about to tie it all up into a neat package? Not at all. Just when you think you’re figuring it out, the universe begins to look its strangest, and this book illustrates how answers often lead to more questions and open up new paths to insight.
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Ultimate Physics
- From Quarks to the Cosmos
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 17-03-2020
- Language: English
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World Nuclear News
- By: World Nuclear News
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Bringing you the news from the worldwide nuclear energy sector, interviews with key players and easy-to-follow guides to the nuclear essentials each month. The World Nuclear News team has been reporting about nuclear power since 2007 at: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/ WNN is supported by the World Nuclear Association and draws on its global network of contacts across the industry, academia and international agencies.
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Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- By: David Hitt, Owen Garriott, Joe Kerwin, and others
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Length: 21 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Homesteading Space is more than a story of technological and scientific success; it is also an absorbing, sometimes humorous, often inspiring account of the determined, hardworking individuals who shepherded the program through a near-disastrous launch, a heroic rescue, an exhausting study of Comet Kohoutek, and the lab's descent into the Indian Ocean. Featuring the unpublished in-flight diary of astronaut Alan Bean, it is replete with the personal recollections and experiences of the Skylab crew and those who worked with them in training, during the mission, and the return.
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Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Narrated by: Gary L. Willprecht
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 21 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 10-01-2020
- Language: English
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Planet Earth
- An Audio Guide
- By: John Gribbin
- Narrated by: Andrea Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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A highly entertaining and accessible introduction to our planet from the best-selling author of Schrödinger's Cat, The Scientists, and In Search of the Multiverse. In this incredible expedition into the origins, workings, and evolution of our home planet, John Gribbin does what he does best: takes four and a half billion years of mind-boggling science and digs out the best bits. From the physics of Newton and the geology of Wegener, to the environmentalism of Lovelock, this is a must-listen for Earth's scientists and residents alike.
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Planet Earth
- An Audio Guide
- Narrated by: Andrea Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 31-05-2012
- Language: English
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Nothing
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Frank Close
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
- Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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This short, smart book tells you everything you need to know about "nothing". What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - "nothing" - exist? To answer these questions, eminent scientist Frank Close takes us on a lively and accessible journey that ranges from ancient ideas and cultural superstitions to the frontiers of current research, illuminating the story of how scientists have explored the void and the rich discoveries they have made there.
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The Universal Sense
- How Hearing Shapes the Mind
- By: Seth S. Horowitz PhD
- Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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The surprising truth about how the things our ears hear affect what's between them. Every day, we are surrounded by millions of sounds - ambient ones like the rumble of the train and the hum of air conditioner, as well as more attention-grabbing sounds, such as human speech, music, and sirens. But how do we process what we hear every day? And how does it affect our brains and our minds?
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The Universal Sense
- How Hearing Shapes the Mind
- Narrated by: Dean Sluyter
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 26-02-2013
- Language: English
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Quantum Theory
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: John Polkinghorne
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Quantum theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that still remain unsettled 75 years after the initial discoveries. Uncertainty, probabilistic physics, complementarity, the problematic character of measurement, and decoherence are among the many topics discussed.
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Quantum Theory
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 08-06-2021
- Language: English
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Einstein's Monsters
- The Life and Times of Black Holes
- By: Chris Impey
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe, and yet they are ubiquitous. Frighteningly enigmatic, these dark giants continue to astound even the scientists who spend their careers studying them. Einstein’s Monsters reveals how our comprehension of black holes is intrinsically linked to how we make sense of the universe and our place within it. From the small questions to the big ones - from the tiniest particles to the nature of space-time itself - black holes might be the key to a deeper understanding of the cosmos.
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Gravity
- By Nicholas O'Halloran on 22-10-2019
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Einstein's Monsters
- The Life and Times of Black Holes
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 19-02-2019
- Language: English
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Quantum Physics
- By: Alistair Rae
- Narrated by: David Thorn
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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From quarks to computing, this fascinating introduction covers every element of the quantum world in clear and accessible language. Drawing on a wealth of expertise to explain just what a fascinating field quantum physics is, Rae points out that it is not simply a maze of technical jargon and philosophical ideas, but a reality which affects our daily lives.
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Quantum Physics
- Narrated by: David Thorn
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 03-04-2012
- Language: English
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Time
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Jennan Ismael
- Narrated by: Kate Zane
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
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What is time? What does it mean for time to pass? Is it possible to travel in time? What is the difference between the past and future? Until the work of Newton, these questions were purely topics of philosophical speculation. Since then we've learned a great deal about time, and its study has moved from a subject of philosophical reflection to instead became part of the subject matter of physics.
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The Prime Number Conspiracy
- The Biggest Ideas in Math from Quanta
- By: Thomas Lin - editor, James Gleick - foreword
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs
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These stories from Quanta Magazine map the routes of mathematical exploration, showing listeners how cutting-edge research is done, while illuminating the productive tension between conjecture and proof, theory and intuition. Listeners of The Prime Number Conspiracy are headed on "breathtaking intellectual journeys to the bleeding edge of discovery strapped to the narrative rocket of humanity's never-ending pursuit of knowledge," says Quanta editor-in-chief Thomas Lin.
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The Prime Number Conspiracy
- The Biggest Ideas in Math from Quanta
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 25-06-2019
- Language: English
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The Cosmic Blueprint
- New Discoveries in Nature's Creative Ability to Order the Universe
- By: Paul Davies
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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In the preface to the 2004 edition, Paul Davies writes, "If the laws of the universe really are a sort of cosmic blueprint, as I suggest, they may also be a blueprint for survival." This critically acclaimed book explains how recent scientific advances are transforming our understanding of the emergence of complexity and organization in the universe. Melding a variety of ideas and disciplines from science and technology, Davies presents his provocative theory on the source of the universe's creative potency.
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The Cosmic Blueprint
- New Discoveries in Nature's Creative Ability to Order the Universe
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 07-09-2010
- Language: English
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Chaos
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Leonard Smith
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The beauty of fractal patterns and their relation to chaos, as well as the history of chaos, and its uses in the real world and implications for the philosophy of science are all discussed in this Very Short Introduction audiobook.
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Chaos
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 27-07-2021
- Language: English
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Life in the Cosmic Context
- Astrobiology Beyond the Possible
- By: Boris Kriger
- Narrated by: Linda Breannah Hendley
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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Are we alone in the universe—or is life a cosmic inevitability? Life in the Cosmic Context goes beyond the conventional search for extraterrestrial biology, asking deeper questions about the very nature of life and our place in an immense, evolving cosmos. In this groundbreaking work, astrobiology becomes more than the science of life beyond Earth; it is a philosophical lens for reimagining what life itself can be. From the origins of life on Earth to the potential for entirely different biochemistries elsewhere, this book challenges listeners to rethink what is possible.
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Life in the Cosmic Context
- Astrobiology Beyond the Possible
- Narrated by: Linda Breannah Hendley
- Series: Science and Cosmos
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 16-09-2025
- Language: English
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Goldilocks and the Water Bears
- The Search for Life in the Universe
- By: Louisa Preston
- Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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All life as we know it is carbon-based and reliant on sources of liquid water and energy for its survival; it is also, of course, known from just one planet: the Earth, a world perfectly suited to host life. But across a universe of at least 100 billion habitable, earthlike worlds, life cannot be restricted to just this one place. Or can it?
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Goldilocks and the Water Bears
- The Search for Life in the Universe
- Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 16-06-2016
- Language: English
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The Quantum Moment
- How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty
- By: Robert P. Crease, Alfred Scharff Goldhaber
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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The discovery of the quantum - the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely divisible quantities - planted a rich set of metaphors in the popular imagination. Quantum imagery and language now bombard us like an endless stream of photons. Phrases such as multiverse, quantum leap, alternate universe, the uncertainty principle, and Schrödinger's cat get reinvented continually in cartoons and movies, coffee mugs and T-shirts, and fiction and philosophy.
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The Quantum Moment
- How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 13-10-2014
- Language: English
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Entanglement
- The Greatest Mystery in Physics
- By: Amir D. Aczel
- Narrated by: Henry Levya
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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Can two particles become inextricably linked, so that a change in one is instantly reflected in its counterpart, even if a universe separates them? Albert Einstein's work suggested it was possible, but it was too bizarre, and too contrary to how we then understood space and time, for him to...
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Entanglement
- The Greatest Mystery in Physics
- Narrated by: Henry Levya
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 20-09-2002
- Language: English
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