Physics

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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Do Aliens Speak Physics?: And Other Questions about Science and the Nature of Reality
The Maniac
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
White Holes
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Physics for Cats
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
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
Quantum Supremacy
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
A Brief History of Time
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
The Grand Design
The Order of Time
Physics of the Impossible
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
Cosmos
The Universe in a Nutshell
The Martian by Andy WeirThe Lost City of Z by David GrannThe Invention of Nature by Andrea WulfThe Gene by Siddhartha MukherjeeOn the Move by Oliver Sacks
Science Friday Radio Show/Podcast
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The Focus Equation by Thinker MindsetThe Order of Time by Carlo RovelliA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingTime Travel by James GleickTimefulness by Marcia Bjornerud
Time: What it is and how to use it
94 books — 17 voters

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard RhodesCommand and Control by Eric SchlosserHiroshima by John HerseyAmerican Prometheus by Kai BirdVoices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
History of the Nuclear Age
230 books — 84 voters

The Quantum Dream by One IamThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingTimaeus by PlatoGuns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
History and Philosophy of Science
71 books — 34 voters
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanSurely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. FeynmanNight by Elie WieselLong Walk to Freedom by Nelson MandelaRelativity by Albert Einstein
Nobel Prize in ANYTHING BUT Literature
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Richard P. Feynman
What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does. ...more
Richard P. Feynman, QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Werner Heisenberg
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontiers

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