Physics

Physics is the natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.

The Maniac
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
White Holes
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Physics for Cats
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
Quantum Supremacy
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
Kwantechizm 2.0, czyli klatka na ludzi
Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
A Brief History of Time
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
The Grand Design
The Order of Time
Physics of the Impossible
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Cosmos
The Universe in a Nutshell
The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaSurely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. FeynmanCosmos by Carl SaganA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingThe Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Scientific Literacy
61 books — 32 voters
The Focus Equation by Thinker MindsetThe Order of Time by Carlo RovelliA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingTime Travel by James GleickTimefulness by Marcia Bjornerud
Time: What it is and how to use it
94 books — 17 voters

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard RhodesCommand and Control by Eric SchlosserHiroshima by John HerseyAmerican Prometheus by Kai BirdVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
History of the Nuclear Age
229 books — 83 voters
A Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingCosmos by Carl SaganThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Demon-Haunted World by Carl SaganA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Scientific Readings for Everyone
150 books — 72 voters

Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonQuiet by Susan CainThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
1,987 books — 1,306 voters
Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Ramamurti ShankarMathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics by Vladimir I. ArnoldNaive Lie Theory by John StillwellQuantum Theory by A. PeresThe Beauty of Fractals by Heinz-Otto Peitgen
Top Springer Physics
26 books — 1 voter


Terry Pratchett
The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an ...more
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Michio Kaku
It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.
Michio Kaku, Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension

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