The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter - Paul J. Steinhardt Audiobook
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The Second Kind of Impossible
The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
By: Paul J. Steinhardt
Narrated by: Peter Larkin
Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-23-19
Language: English
Publisher: Audible Studios
Publisher’s Summary
One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last 50 years, an exciting quest for a new form of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible plays like James Gleick’s Chaos combined with an Indiana Jones adventure.
When leading Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt began working in the 1980s, scientists thought they knew all the conceivable forms of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible is the story of Steinhardt’s 35-year-long quest to challenge conventional wisdom. It begins with a curious geometric pattern that inspires two theoretical physicists to propose a radically new type of matter - one that raises the possibility of new materials with never-before-seen properties but that violates laws set in stone for centuries. Steinhardt dubs this new form of matter “quasicrystal”. The rest of the scientific community calls it simply impossible.
The Second Kind of Impossible captures Steinhardt’s scientific odyssey as it unfolds over decades, first to prove viability and then to pursue his wildest conjecture - that nature made quasicrystals long before humans discovered them. Along the way, his team encounters clandestine collectors, corrupt scientists, secret diaries, international smugglers, and KGB agents. Their quest culminates in a daring expedition to a distant corner of the Earth, in pursuit of tiny fragments of a meteorite forged at the birth of the solar system.
Steinhardt’s discoveries chart a new direction in science. They not only change our ideas about patterns and matter but also reveal new truths about the processes that shaped our solar system. The underlying science is important, simple, and beautiful - and Steinhardt’s firsthand account is an engaging scientific thriller.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2019 Paul J. Steinhardt (P)2019 Audible, Inc.
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| 00. Preface.mp3 3.1 MBs | |
| 01. Impossible!.mp3 20.38 MBs | |
| 02. The Penrose Puzzle.mp3 19.6 MBs | |
| 03. Finding the Loophole.mp3 9.16 MBs | |
| 04. A Tale of Two Laboratories.mp3 13.74 MBs | |
| 05. Something Exciting to Show You.mp3 16.82 MBs | |
| 06. Perfectly Impossible.mp3 14.52 MBs | |
| 07. Did Nature Beat Us.mp3 8.99 MBs | |
| 08. Luca.mp3 7.17 MBs | |
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| 10. When You Say Impossible.mp3 9.26 MBs | |
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| 12. A Capricious If Not Overtly Malicious God.mp3 11.74 MBs | |
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| 22. Nature’s Secret.mp3 34.86 MBs | |
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This post has 4 comments with rating of 5/5
March 5th, 2020
Interesting, must see how this relates to the design of the universe.
March 8th, 2020
It is not working the torrent i cannot download it
March 12th, 2020
Thanks
June 23rd, 2021
Thank you for this!
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