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Fear of a Black Universe : An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics by Alexander, Stephon is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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"Where does great physics come from? As a young graduate student, cosmologist Stephon Alexander had a life-changing lesson in the subject. When asked by the legendary theoretical physicist Christopher Isham why he had attended graduate school, Alexander answered: "To become a better physicist." He could hardly have anticipated Isham's response: "Then stop reading those physics books." Instead, Isham said, Alexander should start listening to his dreams. This is only the first of a great many surp
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alexander, Stephon
- Publisher
- Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781541699632
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Science, Philosophy
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (79 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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