The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter

Author: Paul Steinhardt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 *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...Read more