Does the universe embody Beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this Beautiful question. -- The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Whatever the answer Nature will ultimately give us, we have the pleasure of engaging with an enlightened and humble mind. . . .
Wilczek\'s language is lyrical and almost mystical. . . -- Nature Inspiring and remarkably accessible . -- The Wall Street Journal Both a brilliant exploration of largely uncharted territories and a refreshingly idiosyncratic guide to developments in particle physics.
Frank Wilczek] has accomplished a rare feat: Writing a book of profound humanity based on questions aimed directly at the eternal. . .
Praise for A Beautiful Question An expertly curated tour across 2,500 years of philosophy and physics .
Yes: The world is a work of art, and its deepest truths are ones we already feel, as if they were somehow written in our souls.
It is a dazzling and important work from one of our best thinkers, whose humor and infectious sense of wonder animate every page.
Gorgeously illustrated, A Beautiful Question is a mind-shifting book that braids the age-old quest for beauty and the age-old quest for truth into a thrilling synthesis.
The equations for atoms and light are almost the same ones that govern musical instruments and sound; the subatomic particles that are responsible for most of our mass are determined by simple geometric symmetries.
Wilczek brings us right to the edge of knowledge today, where the core insights of even the craziest quantum ideas apply principles we all understand.
As he reveals in A Beautiful Question , this has been the heart of scientific pursuit from Pythagoras and the ancient belief in the music of the spheres to Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and into the Deep waters of twentieth-century physics.
Wilczek is hardly alone among great scientists in charting his course using beauty as his compass.
This is the Deep logic of the universe--and it is no accident that it is also at the heart of what we find aesthetically pleasing and inspiring.
Wilczek\'s groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in nature.
With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present.
Does the universe embody Beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this Beautiful question
