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The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter

by Paul Steinhardt

One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of matter. “A riveting tale of derring-do” (Nature), this book reads 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 al

Publisher

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

400

ISBN

9781476729930