{"title":"Physics Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-science-of-can-and-cant-9780141986463","title":"The Science of Can and Cant","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA young theoretical physicist''s guide to how the radical new science of counterfactuals can reveal the full scope of our universe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a vast class of properties that science has so far almost entirely neglected. These properties are central to an understanding of physical reality both at an everyday level and at the level of fundamental phenomena, yet they have traditionally been thought of as impossible to incorporate into fundamental explanations. \u003cb\u003eThey relate not only to what is true - the actual - but to what could be true - the counterfactual. 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Helps quench our curiosity, yet deepens the mystery, about the cosmos and our attempts to discover more about it. -- Darragh McManus * Irish Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeautiful, joyful, inspiring.\u003c\/b\u003e A celebration of physicists' quest to understand the universe, from one of the best science writers around. -- Jo Marchant, New York Times bestselling author of CURE\u003cbr\u003eIt's rare that you get a book that connects Dante's \u003ci\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e to the Higgs boson and the geology of limestone cliffs, and this weaving together of two thousand's years of intellectual thought is one of the many delights of this book. \u003cb\u003eIt's a hymn to scientific endeavour.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Professor Mark Miodownik, New York Times bestselling author of STUFF MATTERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWow...\u003c\/b\u003e Tim Radford's writing is so beautiful, it reads like poetry.\u003cb\u003e A book more about life and passion than physics. 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