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Physics is the natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.

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In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb

What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything

Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going

Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe

Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being

Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion

In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems

Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters

Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe

The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged): Adventures in Math and Science

Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life

On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory

The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science

Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings

Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World

L'avvocato dell'atomo. In difesa dell'energia nucleare

The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life

A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars

Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir

The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner

A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks

First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time, revised edition

A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong

Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe

Ten Days in Physics That Shook the World

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

Meteorite: The Stones from Outer Space That Made Our World

A New Science of Heaven: How the new science of plasma physics is shedding light on spiritual experience

Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science

To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery

Nano: The Spectacular Science of the Very (Very) Small

Battle of the Big Bang: The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins

Dios - La ciencia - Las pruebas: El albor de una revolución

Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass

The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers

Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment

The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World

The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science

Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe

Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States

Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens

Inseguendo un raggio di luce. Alla scoperta della teoria della relatività

Firmament: The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us

How to Hear the Universe: Gaby González and the Search for Einstein's Ripples in Space-Time

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The Art of Physics: How Science Explains the Chaos, Contradictions, and Unpredictability of Life

Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe

Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World

A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You

Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe

Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark

Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity

So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World

What Stars are Made of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Quantum Drama: From the Bohr-Einstein Debate to the Riddle of Entanglement

The Invisible Universe: Why There's More to Reality than Meets the Eye

Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, the Universe, and Us

The Matter of Everything: How Curiosity, Physics, and Improbable Experiments Changed the World

Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation

Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern

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― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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“ The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an ...more ”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

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