Category Archives: Book Reviews

Book Review: The Quantum Quark

Posted on December 20, 2004 by woit

Over the last couple weeks I’ve been reading several popular or semi-popular books about particle physics. I thought I’d make a few comments about them here. The first one is called The Quantum Quark by Andrew Watson. It covers the … Continue reading →

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What Is Thought?

Posted on April 30, 2004 by woit

Eric Baum was a fellow physics student both at Harvard and Princeton, completing his Ph.D. in the early 1980s on a topic in quantum gravity. During his years as a physics postdoc he came up with an argument for why … Continue reading →

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A Hole in Texas

Posted on April 12, 2004 by woit

A short book review. This past weekend my scientific activities included reading Herman Wouk’s new novel “A Hole in Texas”. The plot revolves around the story of the cancellation of the SSC and a supposed discovery of the Higgs Boson … Continue reading →

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