ISBN: 9781476729923 - the second kind of impossible: the extraordinary quest for a new form of matter (31 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. *Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* 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 all the conceivable forms of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible is the story of Steinhardt's thirty-five-year-long quest to challenge conventional wisdom. It begins with a curious geometric pattern that inspires two theoretical physicists to propose a radically new type of matter--one that raises the possibility of new materials with never before seen properties, but that violates laws set in stone for centuries. Steinhardt dubs this new form of matter quasicrystal. The rest of the scientific community calls it simply impossible. The Second Kind of Impossible captures Steinhardt's scientific odyssey as it unfolds over decades, first to prove viability, and then to pursue his wildest conjecture--that nature made quasicrystals long before humans discovered them. Along the way, his team encounters clandestine collectors, corrupt scientists, secret diaries, international smugglers, and KGB agents. Their quest culminates in a daring expedition to a distant corner of the Earth, in pursuit of tiny fragments of a meteorite forged at the birth of the solar system. Steinhardt's discoveries chart a new direction in science. They not only change our ideas about patterns and matter, but also reveal new truths about the processes that shaped our solar system. The underlying science is important, simple, and beautiful--and Steinhardt's firsthand account is packed with discovery, disappointment, exhilaration, and persistence.This book is a front-row seat to history as it is made (Nature).…

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Hardback. Zustand: Good. *Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* 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 all the conceivable forms of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible is the story of Steinhardt's thirty-five-year-long quest to challenge conventional wisdom. It begins with a curious geometric pattern that inspires two theoretical physicists to propose a radically new type of matter--one that raises the possibility of new materials with never before seen properties, but that violates laws set in stone for centuries. Steinhardt dubs this new form of matter quasicrystal. The rest of the scientific community calls it simply impossible. The Second Kind of Impossible captures Steinhardt's scientific odyssey as it unfolds over decades, first to prove viability, and then to pursue his wildest conjecture--that nature made quasicrystals long before humans discovered them. Along the way, his team encounters clandestine collectors, corrupt scientists, secret diaries, international smugglers, and KGB agents. Their quest culminates in a daring expedition to a distant corner of the Earth, in pursuit of tiny fragments of a meteorite forged at the birth of the solar system. Steinhardt's discoveries chart a new direction in science. They not only change our ideas about patterns and matter, but also reveal new truths about the processes that shaped our solar system. The underlying science is important, simple, and beautiful--and Steinhardt's firsthand account is packed with discovery, disappointment, exhilaration, and persistence.This book is a front-row seat to history as it is made (Nature).…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. Simon & Schuster, January 2019. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Find book in a Fine jacket. Unmarked. Spine straight and tight. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. viii + 387 pages, 8 pages of plates. A fascinating scientific detective story. Contents: Impossible! -- The Penrose puzzle -- Finding the loophole -- A tale of two laboratories -- Something exciting to show you -- Perfectly impossible -- Did nature beat us? -- Luca -- Quasi-happy new year -- When you say impossible -- Blue team vs. red team -- A capricious if not overtly malicious God -- The secret secret diary -- Valery Kryachko -- Something rare surrounding something impossible -- Icosahedrite -- Lost -- Found -- Ninety-nine percent -- Beating the odds -- L'uomo dei miracoli -- Nature's secret.…

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