We Have No Idea
A Guide to the Unknown Universe
by Jorge Cham, Daniel Whiteson · first published 2017
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Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore--there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson team up to explore everything we don't know about the universe, and while introducing the biggest mysteries in physics, they also helpfully demystify many complicated things we do know. And although the universe is full of weird things that don't make any sense, Cham and Whiteson make a compelling case that the questions we can't answer are as interesting as the ones we can, and they
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I recently finished "We Have No Idea" by Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson. Its a masterpiece of science communication and I cannot recommend it enough as a way for non-physicists to get a grasp on this concept, as well as related ones.
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