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The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science Audiobook
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“An engaging voyage into some of the great mysteries and wonders of our world." --Alan Lightman, author of Einstein’s Dream and The Accidental Universe “No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting.” —Bill Bryson Brain Pickings and Kirkus Best Science Book of the Year Every week seems to throw up a new discovery, shaking the foundations of what we know. But are there questions we will never be able to answer—mysteries that lie beyond the predictive powers of science? In this captivating exploration of our most tantalizing unknowns, Marcus du Sautoy invites us to consider the problems in cosmology, quantum physics, mathematics, and neuroscience that continue to bedevil scientists and creative thinkers who are at the forefront of their fields. At once exhilarating, mind-bending, and compulsively readable, The Great Unknown challenges us to consider big questions—about the nature of consciousness, what came before the big bang, and what lies beyond our horizons—while taking us on a virtuoso tour of the great breakthroughs of the past and celebrating the men and women who dared to tackle the seemingly impossible and had the imagination to come up with new ways of seeing the world.
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“Marcus du Sautoy narrates his tour of seven ‘edges’ of scientific knowledge with infectious enthusiasm, chasing the limits of what science can and can’t reveal…His genuine passion for science comes through, most powerfully when he speaks about his own discipline, mathematics.”
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“Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting.”
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“A fascinating book on the limits of scientific knowledge.”
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“An intriguing bird’s-eye view of the landscape of unknowability.”
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“Reviews some of the great puzzles challenging science in chaos theory, quantum mechanics, cosmology, the nature of time, the origins of human consciousness and the limits of the universe…An absorbing entry into the genre of ‘what science hasn’t figured out yet.’”
— Forbes
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About Marcus du Sautoy
Marcus du Sautoy is the Simonyi professor for the public understanding of science and professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford. He is author of six books and a play. He has presented numerous radio and TV series, including a four-part landmark TV series for the BBC called The Story of Maths. He works extensively with a range of arts organizations bringing science alive for the public from the Royal Opera House to the Glastonbury Festival. He is a fellow of the Royal Society, a recipient of the Berwick Prize, the Zeeman Medal, and the Michael Faraday Prize, and he received an OBE for services to science.