Farewell to reality: how modern physics has betrayed the search for scientific truth

New York: Pegasus Books (2013)
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Presenting portraits of many central figures in modern physics, including Stephen Hawking and Leonard Susskind, this critique of modern theoretical physics provides the latest ideas about the nature of physical reality while clearly distinguishing between fact and fantasy.

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QC6.B29 2013

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