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The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
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Joe
Sep 12, 2008 rated it it was amazing
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Absolutely terrific and definitely in my top three science favorites. Wilczek delves further into modern physics than any other "popular" physics book out there without tip-toeing around the more complicated topics.

He describes particle theory and the Standard Model better than Leon Lederman, relativity better than Brian Greene, gravity better than Stephen Hawking, and QCD better than... well, no one tries to explain QCD.

He did do a few things that bothered me a little though. On occasion, Wilc ...more
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