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Conversations With the Sphinx: Paradoxes in Physics

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English (translation)
Original French

211 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

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Étienne Klein

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Étienne Klein, né à Paris le 1er avril 1958, est un physicien et un philosophe des sciences français.

Il dirige le Laboratoire de recherche sur les sciences de la matière tout en menant une intense carrière de vulgarisation autour des questions soulevées par la physique contemporaine, notamment par la physique quantique et la physique des particules.

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April 4, 2019
A great view on a great topic. From quantum gravity to time reversability, the depicted paradoxes are not only greatly depicted, but also part of a wider reasoning on the purpose of a paradox, why they happen and why/how they helped science progress.
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