2021
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4.64
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From Aristotle to Einstein, An Incomplete Theory takes us on a riveting journey through time, making pit stops at the lives of many exceptional individuals whose insightful work is the foundation of the physical science we know today. Free from equations, this book unlocks the vault of human knowledge with no assumption of scientific background on the part of the listener. It tells and weaves together the stories behind some of history’s greatest thinkers and scientific discoveries. These are stories of incredible patience, ceaseless dedication, remarkable genius, and just the right amount of luck. The six-part narrative filled with captivating anecdotes and original quotations takes us up to the present day, a moment in which physics is haunted by the mystery of how to unite gravity and quantum theory. In the end, symmetry, one of physics’s most powerful principles, motivates a new approach to tackling one of the field’s most enigmatic and fundamental problems.
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Authors
Emily Henry
Author · 16 books
Emily Henry is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers, People We Meet on Vacation, and Beach Read, as well as the forthcoming Happy Place. She lives and writes in Cincinnati and the part of Kentucky just beneath it. Find her on Instagram @EmilyHenryWrites.
Megan Henry
Author · 1 book
Dr. Megan Henry is a theoretical physicist and high school physics teacher, who has done independent research in gravitational theory for two decades. She was awarded "Distinguished Favorite" in the non-fiction category by Independent Press for her book, An Incomplete Theory: The Search For Quantum Gravity (a story).
