30-Second Theories: The 50 Most Thought-provoking Theories in Science, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Robert Matthews, Michael Brooks, Paul Parsons, Susan Blackmore, Martin J. Rees, Christian Jarrett, Jim Al-Khalili, Jon Gribbin, Mark Ridley, Bill McGuire

30-Second Theories: The 50 Most Thought-provoking Theories in Science, Each Explained in Half a Minute

30-Second)

Robert Matthews, Michael Brooks, Paul Parsons, Susan Blackmore, Martin J. Rees, Christian Jarrett, Jim Al-Khalili, Jon Gribbin, Mark Ridley, Bill McGuire

160 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy reference science informative medium-paced

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When it comes to big science, very few things are conclusively known. From Quantum Mechanics to Natural Selection, what we have instead are theories - ideas explain why things happen the way they do. We don't know for certain these are correct - n...

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