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Helgoland

Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

by Carlo Rovelli ...

Narrated by David Rintoul ...

Unabridged

4 hours 31 min

**Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times and a Best Science Book of 2021 by The Guardian“Rovelli is a genius and an amazing communicator… This is the place where science comes to life.” ―Neil Gaiman“One of the warmest, most elegant and most lucid interpreters to the laity of the dazzling enigmas of his discipline...[a] momentous book” ―John Banville, The Wall Street Journal**A startling ... Read more

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**Named a Best Book of 2021 by the Financial Times and a Best Science Book of 2021 by The Guardian“Rovelli is a genius and an amazing communicator… This is the place where science comes to life.” ―Neil Gaiman“One of the warmest, most elegant and most lucid interpreters to the laity of the dazzling enigmas of his discipline...[a] momentous book” ―John Banville, The Wall Street Journal**A startling
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The Real Nature of Time: An Analysis of Physics, Prophecy, and Time Travel Experiences

by Martin K. Ettington ...

Narrated by Martin K. Ettington ...

Unabridged

1 hour 8 min

The real nature of time is still a mystery after thousands of years of philosophers and scientists analyzing it and generating theories about time.Prophecy has existed for most of humanity’s time on Earth and there is a lot of reason to think that seeing the future does see some of what happens. I also wrote two books on this subject including the history of prophecy and my own experiences. The ... Read more

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The real nature of time is still a mystery after thousands of years of philosophers and scientists analyzing it and generating theories about time.Prophecy has existed for most of humanity’s time on Earth and there is a lot of reason to think that seeing the future does see some of what happens. I also wrote two books on this subject including the history of prophecy and my own experiences. The
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Something Deeply Hidden

Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

by Sean Carroll ...

Narrated by Sean Carroll ...

Unabridged

10 hours 9 min

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs you read these words, copies of you are being created.**Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how ... Read more

$22.99 USD

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs you read these words, copies of you are being created.**Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how
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Einstein

His Life and Universe

by Walter Isaacson ...

Narrated by Edward Herrmann ...

Unabridged

21 hours 31 min

Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/MemoirThe definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein.How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how Einstein’s ... Read more

$34.99 USD

Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/MemoirThe definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein.How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how Einstein’s
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The Biggest Ideas in the Universe

Space, Time, and Motion

by Sean Carroll ...

Narrated by Sean Carroll ...

Unabridged

9 hours 55 min

"A porthole into another world."—Scientific AmericanThe most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll, with his genius for making complex notions entertaining, presents in his uniquely lucid voice the fundamental ideas informing the modern physics of reality ... Read more

$20.00 USD

"A porthole into another world."—Scientific AmericanThe most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll, with his genius for making complex notions entertaining, presents in his uniquely lucid voice the fundamental ideas informing the modern physics of reality
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Existential Physics

A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

by Sabine Hossenfelder ...

Narrated by Gina Daniels ...

Unabridged

8 hours 7 min

A contrarian scientist wrestles with the big questions that modern physics raises, and what physics says about the human conditionNot only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a ... Read more

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A contrarian scientist wrestles with the big questions that modern physics raises, and what physics says about the human conditionNot only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a
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Hyperspace

A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension

by Michio Kaku ...

Narrated by Tim Lounibos ...

Unabridged

14 hours 12 min

Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Can we change the past? Are there gateways to parallel universes? All of us have pondered such questions, but there was a time when scientists dismissed these notions as outlandish speculations. Not any more. Today, they are the focus of the most intense scientific activity in recent memory. In Hyperspace, Michio Kaku offers the ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Can we change the past? Are there gateways to parallel universes? All of us have pondered such questions, but there was a time when scientists dismissed these notions as outlandish speculations. Not any more. Today, they are the focus of the most intense scientific activity in recent memory. In Hyperspace, Michio Kaku offers the
... Read more
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Time Machine Tales

The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel

by Paul J. Nahin ...

Narrated by John Lescault ...

Series series The Science and Fiction Series
Unabridged

15 hours 46 min

This audiobook contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel. The emphasis of this book is now on the philosophical and on science fiction, rather than on physics, as in the author’s earlier books on the subject. In that spirit there are, for example, no tech notes filled with algebra, integrals, and ... Read more

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This audiobook contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel. The emphasis of this book is now on the philosophical and on science fiction, rather than on physics, as in the author’s earlier books on the subject. In that spirit there are, for example, no tech notes filled with algebra, integrals, and
... Read more
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Очарование мультивселенной. Параллельные миры, другие измерения и альтернативные реальности

by Пол Халперн ...

Narrated by Евгений Лебедев ...

Unabridged

11 hours 11 min

Что, если наш мир — не единственный? Эта идея давно завораживает писателей, мечтателей и кинематографистов. Но есть ли у нее реальные основания? Американский физик Пол Халперн рассказывает, как философские поиски и научные открытия последних ста с лишним лет произвели революцию в представлениях человека о мире. От предсказуемой ньютоновской Вселенной мы перешли к запутанному ландшафту теории струн ... Read more

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Что, если наш мир — не единственный? Эта идея давно завораживает писателей, мечтателей и кинематографистов. Но есть ли у нее реальные основания? Американский физик Пол Халперн рассказывает, как философские поиски и научные открытия последних ста с лишним лет произвели революцию в представлениях человека о мире. От предсказуемой ньютоновской Вселенной мы перешли к запутанному ландшафту теории струн
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In Our Time: 25 Concepts and Theories in the History of Physics

A BBC Radio 4 Collection

by Melvyn Bragg ...

Narrated by Melvyn Bragg ...

Series series In Our Time
Unabridged

15 hours 43 min

Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of physics through its most important ideas and hypotheses*'*In Our Time is in a class of its own' New York TimesEclectic, erudite and entertaining, In Our Time is one of Radio 4's most successful programmes, regularly attracting an audience of over 2 million for its discussions on every subject under the sun: from oceanography to Ovid.In this special ... Read more

$21.99 USD

Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history of physics through its most important ideas and hypotheses*'*In Our Time is in a class of its own' New York TimesEclectic, erudite and entertaining, In Our Time is one of Radio 4's most successful programmes, regularly attracting an audience of over 2 million for its discussions on every subject under the sun: from oceanography to Ovid.In this special
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The Man Who Stalked Einstein

How Nazi Scientist Philipp Lenard Changed the Course of History

by Birgit Ertl-Wagner, Bernd C. Wagner, Bruce J. Hillman ...

Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

Unabridged

7 hours 46 min

By the end of World War I, Albert Einstein had become the face of the new science of theoretical physics and had made some powerful enemies. One of those enemies, Nobel Prize winner Philipp Lenard, spent a career trying to discredit him. Their story of conflict, pitting Germany’s most widely celebrated Jew against the Nazi scientist who was to become Hitler’s chief advisor on physics, had an ... Read more

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By the end of World War I, Albert Einstein had become the face of the new science of theoretical physics and had made some powerful enemies. One of those enemies, Nobel Prize winner Philipp Lenard, spent a career trying to discredit him. Their story of conflict, pitting Germany’s most widely celebrated Jew against the Nazi scientist who was to become Hitler’s chief advisor on physics, had an
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Einsteins Größe und Unverständlichkeit

Zwei Originalvorträge

by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Ernst Peter Fischer, Harald Lesch ...

Narrated by Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Ernst Peter Fischer, Harald Lesch, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Ernst Peter Fischer, Harald Lesch ...

Series series O-Ton-Wissenschaft
Unabridged

1 hour 13 min

1 | Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Gedenkrede auf Albert Einstein anlässlich seines 80. Geburtstags Sendung: 07.06.1959, SWF Einsteins Ruhm ist zwischen Größe und Unverständlichkeit. Zwar ist er einer der wichtigsten Denker des Jahrhunderts und doch versteht kaum jemand, was er eigentlich gefunden hat. Einstein kann – in Funktion und Größe korrespondierend – als Gesprächspartner von Isaac Newton ... Read more

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1 | Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Gedenkrede auf Albert Einstein anlässlich seines 80. Geburtstags Sendung: 07.06.1959, SWF Einsteins Ruhm ist zwischen Größe und Unverständlichkeit. Zwar ist er einer der wichtigsten Denker des Jahrhunderts und doch versteht kaum jemand, was er eigentlich gefunden hat. Einstein kann – in Funktion und Größe korrespondierend – als Gesprächspartner von Isaac Newton
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Relativity of Einstein

by Albert Einstein ...

Narrated by Jason McCoy ...

Unabridged

2 hours 50 min

In Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, Einstein describes the theories that made him famous, illuminating his case with numerous examples and a smattering of math (nothing more complex than high-school algebra). Einstein's book is not casual reading, but for those who appreciate his work without diving into the arcana of theoretical physics, Relativity will prove a stimulating read. ... Read more

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In Relativity: The Special and the General Theory, Einstein describes the theories that made him famous, illuminating his case with numerous examples and a smattering of math (nothing more complex than high-school algebra). Einstein's book is not casual reading, but for those who appreciate his work without diving into the arcana of theoretical physics, Relativity will prove a stimulating read.
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Quantum Physics Made Simple

From the Origins of the Universe to Quantum Computing — Discover Superposition, Tunneling, Time, Light, and Relativity in the Simplest Possible Way

by Maynard Marrow ...

Narrated by Jillian Carter, Vince Caldwell ...

Unabridged

2 hours 46 min

Quantum physics sounds brilliant—until someone actually tries to explain it.Suddenly you’re drowning in equations, paradoxes, or New Age promises. You’re told particles can be in two places at once… that time isn’t real… that light behaves like a wave and a particle… but no one seems to explain how or why in a way that actually makes sense.So you nod, smile, and move on—still confused.This ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Quantum physics sounds brilliant—until someone actually tries to explain it.Suddenly you’re drowning in equations, paradoxes, or New Age promises. You’re told particles can be in two places at once… that time isn’t real… that light behaves like a wave and a particle… but no one seems to explain how or why in a way that actually makes sense.So you nod, smile, and move on—still confused.This
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La ecuación de Dios

La búsqueda de una teoría del todo

by Michio Kaku ...

Narrated by Julio Caycedo ...

Unabridged

5 hours 20 min

La búsqueda del santo grial de la ciencia por el reputado físico teórico Michio Kaku.Cuando Newton formuló la ley de la gravedad, unificó las reglas que rigen los cielos y la Tierra. Hoy el mayor desafío de la física es encontrar una síntesis de las dos grandes teorías, basadas en principios matemáticos diferentes: la de la relatividad y la cuántic... ... Read more

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La búsqueda del santo grial de la ciencia por el reputado físico teórico Michio Kaku.Cuando Newton formuló la ley de la gravedad, unificó las reglas que rigen los cielos y la Tierra. Hoy el mayor desafío de la física es encontrar una síntesis de las dos grandes teorías, basadas en principios matemáticos diferentes: la de la relatividad y la cuántic...
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ABC of Relativity, The

by Bertrand Russell ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Arthur E ...

Unabridged

5 hours 37 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Russell wrote The ABC of Relativity in 1925, twenty years after Einstein's miracle year and ten years after general relativity — for the educated reader who wanted to actually understand what Einstein had done. Russell was perhaps the most lucid English-language explainer of his century. He walks the listener through space and time, what light is, what ... Read more

$5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Russell wrote The ABC of Relativity in 1925, twenty years after Einstein's miracle year and ten years after general relativity — for the educated reader who wanted to actually understand what Einstein had done. Russell was perhaps the most lucid English-language explainer of his century. He walks the listener through space and time, what light is, what
... Read more
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E=mc² - Eine sehr kurze Einführung in die Relativitätstheorie

by Christophe Galfard, Christophe Galfard ...

Narrated by Hans Peter Stoll ...

Unabridged

1 hour 11 min

Es ist die berühmteste Theorie aller Zeiten. Aber wie viele von uns wissen, was sie genau bedeutet? Und warum ist sie hundert Jahre später immer noch relevant für uns? Der Hawking-Schüler und Bestsellerautor Christophe Galfard untersucht die wahre Bedeutung hinter der ikonischen Abfolge von Symbolen, aus denen Einsteins große Gleichung besteht. In seinem leicht zugänglichen und anschaulichen Stil ... Read more

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Es ist die berühmteste Theorie aller Zeiten. Aber wie viele von uns wissen, was sie genau bedeutet? Und warum ist sie hundert Jahre später immer noch relevant für uns? Der Hawking-Schüler und Bestsellerautor Christophe Galfard untersucht die wahre Bedeutung hinter der ikonischen Abfolge von Symbolen, aus denen Einsteins große Gleichung besteht. In seinem leicht zugänglichen und anschaulichen Stil
... Read more
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The Little Book of Black Holes

Science Essentials

by Frans Pretorius, Steven S. Gubser ...

Narrated by Andrew Eiden ...

Unabridged

5 hours 12 min

Black holes, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties. Although Einstein understood that black holes were mathematical solutions to his equations, he never accepted their physical reality?a viewpoint many shared.After introducing the basics of the special and ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Black holes, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties. Although Einstein understood that black holes were mathematical solutions to his equations, he never accepted their physical reality?a viewpoint many shared.After introducing the basics of the special and
... Read more
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QUANTUM PHYSICS FOR BEGINNERS

An Easy Guide for Discovering the Hidden Side of Reality One Speck at a Time

by Darrell Ason ...

Narrated by Jerry Wright ...

Unabridged

5 hours 23 min

+ Free 2 BONUS CHAPTERS INSIDE AND THE PDF VERSION* OF THE AUDIO BOOK FOR YOU!WANT TO LEARN AND IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS AT COCKTAIL PARTIES WITH SOME "BIG BRAIN" TRIVIA ABOUT SOME HISTORY'S GREATEST SCIENTIFIC MINDS AND THE MOST WACKY PHENOMENA OF THE UNIVERSE?Imagine a world where particles can exist in multiple places at once, where unseen forces connect everything in ways you’ve never considered, ... Read more

$11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

+ Free 2 BONUS CHAPTERS INSIDE AND THE PDF VERSION* OF THE AUDIO BOOK FOR YOU!WANT TO LEARN AND IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS AT COCKTAIL PARTIES WITH SOME "BIG BRAIN" TRIVIA ABOUT SOME HISTORY'S GREATEST SCIENTIFIC MINDS AND THE MOST WACKY PHENOMENA OF THE UNIVERSE?Imagine a world where particles can exist in multiple places at once, where unseen forces connect everything in ways you’ve never considered,
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Physics of Space Travel, The: Exploring Faster-Than-Light Travel

Space Exploration and the New Frontier

by Ciro Irmici ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Martin G ...

Unabridged

1 hour 43 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Physics of Space Travel: Exploring Faster-Than-Light Travel is an exhilarating journey into the world of cutting-edge science and theoretical physics. Imagine a future where interstellar travel is not just a dream, but a reality. In this comprehensive and accessible guide, you’ll dive deep into the science behind faster-than-light travel, exploring ... Read more

$3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Physics of Space Travel: Exploring Faster-Than-Light Travel is an exhilarating journey into the world of cutting-edge science and theoretical physics. Imagine a future where interstellar travel is not just a dream, but a reality. In this comprehensive and accessible guide, you’ll dive deep into the science behind faster-than-light travel, exploring
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Supremacía cuántica

La revolución tecnológica que lo cambiará todo

by Michio Kaku ...

Narrated by Julio Caycedo ...

Unabridged

11 hours 30 min

Todo es posible en la era cuántica.«Su prosa lúcida y su proceso de reflexión dan mucho sentidoa este punto de inflexión tecnológico».The New York TimesEl prestigioso físico teórico Michio Kaku expone en Supremacía cuántica todas las promesas y los escollos que pueden surgir a partir del uso del ordenador cuántico, ... ... Read more

$22.99 USD

Todo es posible en la era cuántica.«Su prosa lúcida y su proceso de reflexión dan mucho sentidoa este punto de inflexión tecnológico».The New York TimesEl prestigioso físico teórico Michio Kaku expone en Supremacía cuántica todas las promesas y los escollos que pueden surgir a partir del uso del ordenador cuántico, ...
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Raumzeit – Wie das Universum Denken lernt

Physik leicht erklärt | Band 3

by Orhan Schöwe ...

Narrated by Orhan Schöwe ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Physik leicht erklärt
Unabridged

36 min

Raumzeit – Wie das Universum Denken lernt(Physik leicht erklärt | Band 3)Was ist Raumzeit wirklich?Ein festes Gefüge aus Raum und Zeit – oder ein lebendiges Gewebe, das Bewegung, Energie und Wahrnehmung miteinander verbindet?In Band 3 der Reihe Physik leicht erklärt führt Orhan Schöwe in eines der tiefsten Konzepte moderner Physik: die Raumzeit. Dieses Hörbuch erklärt verständlich und ohne Formeln ... Read more

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Raumzeit – Wie das Universum Denken lernt(Physik leicht erklärt | Band 3)Was ist Raumzeit wirklich?Ein festes Gefüge aus Raum und Zeit – oder ein lebendiges Gewebe, das Bewegung, Energie und Wahrnehmung miteinander verbindet?In Band 3 der Reihe Physik leicht erklärt führt Orhan Schöwe in eines der tiefsten Konzepte moderner Physik: die Raumzeit. Dieses Hörbuch erklärt verständlich und ohne Formeln
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How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog

by Chad Orzel ...

Narrated by Will Collyer, Cassandra Morris ...

Unabridged

9 hours 54 min

They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. But this "witty and clear thinking" (New York Times) book wonders, what about relativity?Physicist Chad Orzel and his inquisitive canine companion, Emmy, tackle the concepts of general relativity in this irresistible introduction to Einstein’s physics. Through armchair, and sometimes passenger-seat, conversations with Emmy about the relative speeds ... Read more

$27.99 USD

They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. But this "witty and clear thinking" (New York Times) book wonders, what about relativity?Physicist Chad Orzel and his inquisitive canine companion, Emmy, tackle the concepts of general relativity in this irresistible introduction to Einstein’s physics. Through armchair, and sometimes passenger-seat, conversations with Emmy about the relative speeds
... Read more
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Einstein's War

How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I

by Matthew Stanley ...

Narrated by Matthew Stanley ...

Unabridged

12 hours 3 min

The birth of a world-changing idea in the middle of a bloodbathEinstein’s War is a riveting exploration of both the beauty of scientific creativity and enduring horrors of human nature. These two great forces battle in a story that culminates with a victory now a century old, the mind bending theory of general relativity.Few recognize how the Great War, the industrialized slaughter that bled ... Read more

$22.99 USD

The birth of a world-changing idea in the middle of a bloodbathEinstein’s War is a riveting exploration of both the beauty of scientific creativity and enduring horrors of human nature. These two great forces battle in a story that culminates with a victory now a century old, the mind bending theory of general relativity.Few recognize how the Great War, the industrialized slaughter that bled
... Read more

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