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The Magicians
- Author
- Marcus Chown
- Narrator
- Marcus Chown
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 18 February 2020
- Run Time
- 9 hours 24 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose
eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power.
'An excellent popular science book.'
DARA Ó 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 down it again.'
BBC SKY AT NIGHT
The Magicians 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, unsuspected subatomic particles and even antimatter, Marcus Chown reveals science's greatest mystery: its astonishing predictive power.
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Details
- Author
- Marcus Chown
- Narrator
- Marcus Chown
- Duration
- 9 hours 24 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 February 2020
- ISBN
- 9780571360567
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- History of science, Popular science
Synopsis
'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one has ever known before? And why is mathematics so magically good at revealing nature's secrets? This is the story of the magicians: the scientists who predicted the existence of unknown planets, black holes, invisible force fields, ripples in the fabric of space-time, unsuspected subatomic particles, and even antimatter. The journey from prediction to proof transports us from seats of learning in Paris and Cambridge to the war-torn Russian front, to bunkers beneath nuclear reactors, observatories in Berlin and California, and huge tunnels under the Swiss-French border. From electromagnetism to Einstein's gravitational waves to the elusive neutrino, Marcus Chown takes us on a breathtaking, mind-altering tour of the major breakthroughs of modern physics and highlights science's central mystery: its astonishing predictive power. Praise for Marcus Chown:'What good popular science writing is all about.' - Jim Al-Khalili'Pretty wonderful.' - Richard Dawkins'Entertaining and at times mind-boggling.' - The Times
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