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A review by sprague
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek
4.0
Easy to read, written in the emphatic voice of a Nobel Prizewinning physicist who clearly knows the subject. I especially liked the summaries:
Four (Deceptively) Easy Principles
1. The basic laws describe change. Distinguish between “state” and “laws”. Laws describe change.
2. The basic laws are universal.
3. Locality: they’re true at every level. Behavior in the immediate future depends only on current conditions in the immediate vicinity.
4. Precision: There are no exceptions, ever, to the laws.
Primary properties of matter from which all other properties can be derived:
mass, charge, spin
Four (Deceptively) Easy Principles
1. The basic laws describe change. Distinguish between “state” and “laws”. Laws describe change.
2. The basic laws are universal.
3. Locality: they’re true at every level. Behavior in the immediate future depends only on current conditions in the immediate vicinity.
4. Precision: There are no exceptions, ever, to the laws.
Primary properties of matter from which all other properties can be derived:
mass, charge, spin