Gleick, James.
Summary: Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological - the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530 GLECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 530.11 GLESmolin, Lee
Summary: In Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin provides an accessible overview of the attempts to build a final "theory of everything." He explains in simple terms what scientists are talking about when they say the world is made from exotic entities such as loops, strings, and black holes and tells the fascinating stories behind these discoveries: the rivalries, epiphanies, and intrigues he...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018