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The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality
- Narrated by: Don Lincoln
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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Summary
At the end of his career, Albert Einstein was pursuing a dream far more ambitious than the theory of relativity. He was trying to find an equation that explained all physical reality - a theory of everything. He failed, but others have taken up the challenge in a remarkable quest that is shedding light on unsuspected secrets of the cosmos.
Experimental physicist and award-winning educator Dr. Don Lincoln of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory takes you on this exciting journey in The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality. Suitable for the intellectually curious at all levels and assuming no background beyond basic high-school math, these 24 half-hour lectures cover recent developments at the forefront of particle physics and cosmology, while delving into the history of the centuries-long search for this holy grail of science.
You trace the dream of a theory of everything through Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger, Feynman, Gell-Mann, Weinberg, and other great physicists, charting their progress toward an all-embracing, unifying theory. Their resulting equations are the masterpieces of physics, which Dr. Lincoln explains in fascinating and accessible detail. Studying them is like touring a museum of great works of art - works that are progressing toward an ultimate, as-yet-unfinished masterpiece.
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Science keeps advancing
After the excitement of 2012 it has been good to be brought up to date with the latest progress. The illustrations and analogies were helpful for my 86-year-old brain!
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- P
- 02-05-19
For those who seek science truth
A great review of what we know and what we might know in the future. Looking back in history and to the frontier of particle physics. Excellently read.
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- Chrisox
- 21-06-22
Really interesting but why switch units
Good listen even though obviously you can't see the slides which would probably make it easier to understand. The annoying thing is they use mostly imperial units (which noone in Europe knows or understands) mixed in with metric measurements. No idea why this is done and makes it more difficult to understand. surely even in the US it makes sense to use entirely metric units in scientific lectures.
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- Andrzej Bania
- 27-10-22
Excellent set of advanced lecturers
Strongly recommended for anybody who wants to try and gain an advance understanding of the physics that underpins our universe
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- Veronica
- 30-10-20
Well executed! A joy to listen to.
This audiobokk is laid out in such a good format that just about anyone could comprehend what is being said. There is some humor and the narrator recaps on things as you go along which helped to keep me on track. This a great book for anyone who wishes to explore quantum physics and where the science community has gotten up to the recent years. I highly recommend.
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- Nils Stromo
- 21-07-22
From scientists to scientists
This book was amazing.
It covers nearly all areas of physics.
Sometimes, too good info
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-07-22
AWESOME
This is a celebration of the men and women
who lead humanity out of the dark cave of ignorance into the glorious sunny dawn of time.
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- Maciman
- 06-06-23
A great review of what we know.
Well structured and comprehensive summary.
Well presented in a not over techy way.
Good narration.
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- Cecile
- 02-03-24
Another excellent book but…
…it helps having a bit of background knowledge - and a pen and paper to follow along. Lincoln’s other series on ‘misconceptions’ for instance really helped me prepare for this one.
Still, such a great series!! So much work went into making complex material graspable by non scientific folks. And really well narrated too.
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- Ioakim Chorozidis
- 14-03-19
Great book ! Not so great audiobook
As all of scientific books the audiobook version is a bit incomplete because of the lack of visual representation of the equations and the diagrams . But never the less is a great audiobook with a very interesting content.
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