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.

Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter
The Maniac
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
White Holes
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
Quantum Supremacy
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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
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
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
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152 books — 74 voters

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History and Philosophy of Science
71 books — 25 voters
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Science Books Published In/After 2012
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Stephen W. Hawking
The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. … Time itself must come to a stop. You can’t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang. We have finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a c ...more
Stephen W. Hawking

You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

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