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Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, 2nd Edition
- By: Richard Wolfson, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Richard Wolfson
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
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"It doesn't take an Einstein to understand modern physics," says Professor Wolfson at the outset of these 24 lectures on what may be the most important subjects in the universe: relativity and quantum physics. Both have reputations for complexity. But the basic ideas behind them are, in fact, simple and comprehensible by anyone. These dynamic and illuminating lectures begin with a brief overview of theories of physical reality starting with Aristotle and culminating in Newtonian or "classical" physics. After that, you'll follow along as Professor Wolfson outlines the logic that led to Einstein's profound theory of special relativity and the simple yet far-reaching insight on which it rests. With that insight in mind, you'll move on to consider Einstein's theory of general relativity and its interpretation of gravitation in terms of the curvature of space and time.From there, you'll embark on a dazzling exploration of how inquiry into matter at the atomic and subatomic scales led to quandaries that are resolved-or at least clarified-by quantum mechanics, a vision of physical reality so profound and so at odds with our experience that it nearly defies language.By bringing relativity and quantum mechanics into the same picture, you'll chart the development of fascinating hypotheses about the origin, development, and possible futures of the entire universe, as well as the possibility that physics can produce a "theory of everything" to account for all aspects of the physical world. But the goal throughout these lectures remains the same: to present the key ideas of modern physics in a way that makes them clear to the interested layperson.
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this is NOT the 2nd edition as advertised
- By wizzaw on 22-07-18
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Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, 2nd Edition
- Narrated by: Richard Wolfson
- Series: The Great Courses: Physics
- Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything
- from the Big Bang to Belly-button Fluff
- By: New Scientist, Stephen Hawking, Graham Lawton, and others
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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DOES ANYTHING EAT WASPS meets INFORMATION IS BEAUTIFUL: A journey through life, the universe and everything. From what actually happened in the Big Bang to the accidental discovery of post-it notes, science is packed with surprising discoveries. Did you know, for instance, that if you were to...
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Coffee table science reading
- By Mr J R Milnes on 02-11-18
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New Scientist: The Origin of (almost) Everything
- from the Big Bang to Belly-button Fluff
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 29-06-17
- Language: English
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Quantum Physics for Beginners
- The Non-Scientist’s Guide to the Big Ideas of Quantum Mechanics, with Key Principles, Major Theories, and Experiments Simplified
- By: Pantheon Space Academy
- Narrated by: Grant Benker
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Are you curious about the quantum world but overwhelmed by tough words and complex equations? Make this your first book on quantum—your guide to understanding the universe’s most mysterious topics, from waves and light to space, nature, and even consciousness!
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Quantum Basics Without the Headache
- By Jared Johnson on 22-02-26
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Quantum Physics for Beginners
- The Non-Scientist’s Guide to the Big Ideas of Quantum Mechanics, with Key Principles, Major Theories, and Experiments Simplified
- Narrated by: Grant Benker
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 11-12-24
- Language: English
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A Journey Through the Universe
- A Traveler's Guide from the Centre of the Sun to the Edge of the Unknown
- By: New Scientist
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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A Journey Through the Universe is a grand tour of the most amazing celestial objects and how they fit together to build the cosmos. There's a whole universe out there.... Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going. Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way? The answer is: mostly nothing. Space is astonishingly, mind-blowingly empty.
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Brilliant!
- By Graham French on 03-09-19
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A Journey Through the Universe
- A Traveler's Guide from the Centre of the Sun to the Edge of the Unknown
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 05-04-18
- Language: English
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The Infinite Monkey Cage – How to Build a Universe
- By: Prof. Brian Cox, Robin Ince, Alexandra Feachem
- Narrated by: Eric Idle
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms. Professor...
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Must listen to the entire book - brilliant
- By Anon on 02-11-17
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The Infinite Monkey Cage – How to Build a Universe
- Narrated by: Eric Idle
- Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 19-10-17
- Language: English
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Where the Universe Came From
- How Einstein's relativity unlocks the past, present and future of the cosmos
- By: New Scientist
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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A little over a century ago, a young Albert Einstein presented his general theory of relativity to the world and utterly transformed our understanding of the universe. His theory changed the way we think about space and time, revealed how our universe has been expanding from a hot, dense state called the big bang and predicted black holes. Where the Universe Came From is a 13.8 billiion-year journey through the cosmos.
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Where the Universe Came From
- How Einstein's relativity unlocks the past, present and future of the cosmos
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 15-06-17
- Language: English
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The Universe
- Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos
- By: John Brockman
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson, Danny Campbell, Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Universe, today's most influential science writers explain the science behind our evolving understanding of The Universe and everything in it, including the cutting-edge research and discoveries that are shaping our knowledge. Lee Smolin reveals how math and cosmology are helping us create a theory of the whole universe. Neil Turok analyzes the fundamental laws of nature, what came before the big bang, and the possibility of a unified theory. And much more.
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Probably better suited for university graduates
- By Fran Gilhooley on 20-11-23
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The Universe
- Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson, Danny Campbell, Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 24-09-14
- Language: English
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Strange Angel
- The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
- By: George Pendle
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Los Angeles Times headline screamed: Rocket Scientist Killed in Pasadena Explosion. The man known as Jack Parsons, a maverick rocketeer who helped transform a derided sci-fi plotline into actuality, was at first mourned as a scientific prodigy. But reporters soon uncovered a more shocking story: Parsons had been a devotee of the city’s occult scene.
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Uncomfortable narration
- By Bookish on 17-10-21
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Strange Angel
- The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 14-05-19
- Language: English
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Confessions of an Alien Hunter
- A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- By: Seth Shostak
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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This engaging memoir reveals the true story of the Search for ExtraterrestrialIntelligence (SETI), and discloses what we may very soon discover. Chronicling the program’s history with insight and humor, SETI senior astronomer Seth Shostak assures us that if there is sentient life in the universe, we are within decades of picking up its signal.
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Fascinating and entertaining
- By StevenCF on 03-12-10
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Confessions of an Alien Hunter
- A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 01-09-10
- Language: English
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The Asteroid Hunter
- A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System
- By: Dante Lauretta
- Narrated by: Dante Lauretta, Brian May
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In this "captivating, behind-the-scenes account" of NASA’s historic mission to return an asteroid sample and unlock the mystery of life on earth, readers will experience the daring mission while learning about its brave crew (Sara Seager). On September 11, 1999, humanity made a monumental...
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Compelling story! Really good
- By David Ridge on 11-04-24
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The Asteroid Hunter
- A Scientist's Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System
- Narrated by: Dante Lauretta, Brian May
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 19-03-24
- Language: English
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What Stars Are Made Of
- The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
- By: Donovan Moore, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - foreword
- Narrated by: Donovan Moore, Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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It was not easy being a woman of ambition in early 20th-century England, much less one who wished to be a scientist. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin overcame prodigious obstacles to become a woman of many firsts: the first to receive a PhD in astronomy from Radcliffe College, the first promoted to full professor at Harvard, the first to head a department there. And, in what has been called "the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in astronomy", she was the first to describe what stars are made of.
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Fascinating story
- By Peter Maggs on 30-09-24
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What Stars Are Made Of
- The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
- Narrated by: Donovan Moore, Elizabeth Wiley
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 25-08-20
- Language: English
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The Sagan Conspiracy
- NASA's Untold Plot to Suppress the People's Scientist's Theory of Ancient Aliens
- By: Donald L. Zygutis
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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How many Carl Sagan fans know that while the renowned scientist was at Stanford University, he produced a controversial paper, funded by a NASA research grant, that concludes that ancient alien intervention may have sparked human civilization? Author Donald L. Zygutis lays out a compelling case that points to a cover-up by the Pentagon and NASA, who may have buried it soon after it was written. How significant is the Stanford paper?
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no actual data, just repeats the few "facts" he has
- By James on 03-07-25
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The Sagan Conspiracy
- NASA's Untold Plot to Suppress the People's Scientist's Theory of Ancient Aliens
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 21-11-16
- Language: English
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Genesis
- The Story of How Everything Began
- By: Guido Tonelli, Erica Segre - translator, Simon Carnell - translator
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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A breakout bestseller in Italy, now available for American listeners for the first time, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began is a short, humanistic tour of the origins of the universe, earth, and life—drawing on the latest discoveries in physics to explain the seven most significant...
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Genesis
- The Story of How Everything Began
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 13-04-21
- Language: English
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The End of Everything
- (Astrophysically Speaking)
- By: Katie Mack
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Katie Mack
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * AN NPR SCIENCE FRIDAY BOOK CLUB SELECTION * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, THE ECONOMIST, NEW SCIENTIST, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, and THE GUARDIAN From the cohost of the podcast The Universe with John Green and one of the most dynamic stars in...
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The End of Everything
- (Astrophysically Speaking)
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Katie Mack
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 04-08-20
- Language: English
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Splinters of Infinity
- Cosmic Rays and the Clash of Two Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists over the Secrets of Creation
- By: Mark Wolverton
- Narrated by: Steve Marvel
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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Set in a revolutionary era of physics and science when a series of rapid-fire discoveries was upending our understanding of the universe, Splinters of Infinity by Mark Wolverton tells a little-known story: the tale of two of America's foremost physicists, Robert Millikan (1868-1953) and Arthur Compton (1892-1962), who found themselves locked in an intense, often deeply personal, conflict about cosmic rays.
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Splinters of Infinity
- Cosmic Rays and the Clash of Two Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists over the Secrets of Creation
- Narrated by: Steve Marvel
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 12-03-24
- Language: English
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Astronomers Turned Data Scientists Podcast
- By: astro2data
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A podcast featuring interviews with a variety of former astronomers / current data scientists. Created as part of the Astronomers Turned Data Scientists (ATDS) community (which also has annual meetings at the American Astronomical Society’s Winter Meeting).
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Nullifying God: Evolution's End Game, a Scientist's Challenge
- By: H. Robert Wilson
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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Evolution and creation are in a spiritual battle. Evolution scientists ignore, dismiss, and unequivocally reject creation out of hand - "It is not science or fact as evolution is," they say. However, Nullifying God shows that random Darwinian evolution does not have the direct evidence required to support the claim. Not only that, but it provides contrary evidence that evolution is biologically impossible.
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Nullifying God: Evolution's End Game, a Scientist's Challenge
- Narrated by: Tim Carper
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 17-05-18
- Language: English
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Archaeology from Space
- How the Future Shapes Our Past
- By: Sarah Parcak
- Narrated by: Sarah Parcak
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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This program is read by the author. National Geographic Explorer and TED Prize-winner Dr. Sarah Parcak welcomes you to the exciting new world of space archaeology, a growing field that is sparking extraordinary discoveries from ancient civilizations across the globe. In Archaeology from Space...
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Archaeology from Space
- How the Future Shapes Our Past
- Narrated by: Sarah Parcak
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 09-07-19
- Language: English
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