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Six Impossible Things by John Gribbin
22.99 NZD
Category: Science | Series: Quanta of Solace & Mysteries of Subatomic World
Quantum physics is strange. It tells us that a particle can be in two places at once. Indeed, that particle is also a wave, and everything in the quantum world can be described entirely in terms of waves, or entirely in terms of particles, whichever you prefer. All of this was clear by the end of the ...Show more
Space: Our Final Frontier by John Gribbin
74.95 NZD
Category: Coffee Table Books | Reading Level: very good
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science by Michael White and John Gribbin
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Originally published in 1992 to great acclaim, this updated edition traces the course of Hawking (TM)s life and science, successfully marrying biography and physics to tell the story of a remarkable man. Stephen Hawking is no ordinary scientist. With a career that began over thirty years ago at Camb ...Show more
The Fellowship by John Gribbin
69.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Allen Lane Science S.
John Gribbin, bestselling author of In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, explores the defining decades of the seventeenth century's scientific revolution, when the Royal Society established what became the 'scientific method', a way of doing and communicating science that set the tone for the three and a hal ...Show more
Time Travel for Beginners by Mary & John Gribbin
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction
Physicists can't yet build time machines but they know that the laws of physics would allow one to exist. Scientists are investigating the manipulation of potential 'natural' time machines such as black holes, and other possibilities. All of these are discussed - not the detail of the mathematical equat ...Show more
Universe: A Biography by John Gribbin
30.00 NZD
Category: Science
"The Universe: A Biography" makes cosmology accessible to everyone. John Gribbin navigates the latest frontiers of scientific discovery to tell us what we really know about the history of the universe. Along the way, he describes how the universe began; what the early universe looked like; how its struc ...Show more