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The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power.

'An excellent popular science book.'
DARA Ã? BRIAIN

'A thoroughly informative and entertaining read.'
ANNA BURNS, Booker Prize-winning author of Milkman

'One of the best-written books about phsyics I have ever come across.'
POPULAR SCIENCE

'Highly entertaining and accessible.' IRISH TIMES
'Fascinating, life enhancing entertainment.' PROSPECT
'Thoroughly enjoyable . . . Chown has done it again.' BBC SKY AT NIGHT

Breakthrough takes us on a breathtaking, mind-altering tour of the eureka! moments of modern physics. Charting the spellbinding stories of the scientists who predicted and discovered the existence of unknown planets, black holes, invisible force fields, ripples in the fabric of space-time,

Breakthrough

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    Publisher: Faber & Faber
    Publication Date: 05/08/2021
    ISBN13: 9780571366712, 978-0571366712
    ISBN10: 0571366716

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power.

    'An excellent popular science book.'
    DARA Ã? BRIAIN

    'A thoroughly informative and entertaining read.'
    ANNA BURNS, Booker Prize-winning author of Milkman

    'One of the best-written books about phsyics I have ever come across.'
    POPULAR SCIENCE

    'Highly entertaining and accessible.' IRISH TIMES
    'Fascinating, life enhancing entertainment.' PROSPECT
    'Thoroughly enjoyable . . . Chown has done it again.' BBC SKY AT NIGHT

    Breakthrough takes us on a breathtaking, mind-altering tour of the eureka! moments of modern physics. Charting the spellbinding stories of the scientists who predicted and discovered the existence of unknown planets, black holes, invisible force fields, ripples in the fabric of space-time,

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