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A theoretical physicist takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey—found in 'no other book' (Science)—to discover how the universe generates everything from nothing at all: 'If you want to know what's really going on in the realms of relativity and particle physics, read this book' (Sean Carroll, author of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe).

In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human experience, and empty space. He begins with a simple mystery of motion. When we drive at highway speeds with the windows down, the wind beats against our faces. Yet our planet hurtles through the cosmos at 150 miles per second, and we feel nothing of it. How can our voyage be so tranquil when, as Einstein discovered, matter warps space, and space deflects matter?
 
The answer, Strassler reveals, is that empty space is a sea, albeit a paradoxically strange one.

Waves in an Impossible Sea

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      Publisher Basic Books
      Published 1/21/2024
      ISBN-13 9781541603295
      978-1541603295
      ISBN-10 154160329X
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      Mathematics Philosophy of mathematics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A theoretical physicist takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey—found in 'no other book' (Science)—to discover how the universe generates everything from nothing at all: 'If you want to know what's really going on in the realms of relativity and particle physics, read this book' (Sean Carroll, author of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe).

      In Waves in an Impossible Sea, physicist Matt Strassler tells a startling tale of elementary particles, human experience, and empty space. He begins with a simple mystery of motion. When we drive at highway speeds with the windows down, the wind beats against our faces. Yet our planet hurtles through the cosmos at 150 miles per second, and we feel nothing of it. How can our voyage be so tranquil when, as Einstein discovered, matter warps space, and space deflects matter?
       
      The answer, Strassler reveals, is that empty space is a sea, albeit a paradoxically strange one.

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