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Rated Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World 8/10

Really delightful book by a theoretical particle physicist about some of the latest developments in science, especially the Large Hadron Collider in Europe - but sine it's a couple of years old there have been some developments since then. Especially useful as a window into how scientists think about problems. If I had any reservations it's that some of it is really well above my head ore super-technical and I had to skim it - there are certain things about particle physics I'm just never going to really understand with my limited scientific/mathematical background although Randall is very game to try and explain genuinely weird stuff like super-symmetry and very small extra dimensions.

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Published 2026-08-18 21:24 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere