Physics on the Fringe : Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything
ISBN: 9780802715135 | 0802715133
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Walker & Company
Pub. Date: 10/25/2011
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"Gravity is not the result of things falling down but of the earth falling up," according to a trailer park owner named Jim Carter. He believes everything is constantly expanding and the earth itself is doubling in size every 19 minutes-thus, the ground is rushing up to meet whatever you drop. For many years acclaimed science writer Margaret Wertheim has collected the works of "outsider physicists," most without formal training and all convinced they have discovered an alternative theory of relativity, the origin of the universe, and so on. Fif... MORE
"Margaret Wertheim writes beautifully, passionately, and with great humanity about a most unusual mind. This book is ultimately about big things: What is science? What is the universe? And who says?"—Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein
“With a vivid storyteller’s glee, Margaret Wertheim spins us one of those wide looping yarns that starts out all in good antic fun, only to become more and more confoundingly profound. Her sagas of outsider physicists open out onto some of... MORE
“Margaret Wertheim's fascinating portrait of Jim Carter wonderfully captures both the pathos and the brilliance hidden in a venerable tradition of science: the quixotic amateur who thinks he might have figured out the answer to the mysteries of the universe.” —Paul Collins, author of The Murder of the Century
"Physics on the Fringe is a compelling, sympathetic study of the outsiders who challenge the gates of official science with impassioned theories of the universe, much the way outsider artists challenged the art establishment.”—Lisa Stone, curator, Roger Brown Study Collection, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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