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The Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection Tweet 250 Milestones in the History of Physics Clifford A. Pickover High Praise for The Physics Book "The Physics Book offers a thrilling , fast-paced excursion through the history of physical discovery, starting with the innovative tools developed by the ancients and ending with astronomy's farthest-reaching speculations about the final stages of the universe. Pickover's mesmerizing tales, accompanied by rich illustrations, offer tribute to the power of the mind to unravel the mysteries of the natural world. This fascinating chronicle of everything from silly putty to string theory represents a true garden of scientific delights!" -- Dr. Paul Halpern, author of Collider "This beautifully illustrated, enthralling tour through the highlights of the science that brought us all our modern technology will surely delight and and inform the curious reader." -- Dr. Julien Clinton Sprott, author of Elegant Chaos 250 of the most intriguing physics milestones including: Big Bang (13.7 Billion BC) * Sundial (3000 BC) * * Baghdad Batteries (250 BC) * Pulley (230 BC) * St. Elmo's Fire (78) * Aurora Borealis (1621) * Barometer (1643) * Newton's Laws of Motion and Gravitation (1687) * Ben Franklin's Kite (1752) * Black Holes (1783) Olbers' Paradox (1832) * Fiber Optics (1841) * Baseball Curveball (1870) * Incandescent Light Bulb (1878) * X-rays (1895) * Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation (1903) * Superconductivity (1911) * General Theory of Relativity (1915) * Schrödinger's Wave Equation (1926) * Neutron (1932) * Schrödinger's Cat (1935) * Little Boy Atomic Bomb (1945) * 1947 Transistor * Radiocarbon Dating (1949) * Parallel Universes (1956) * Dark Side of the Moon (1959) * Quasars (1963) * Cosmic Microwave Background (1965) * Newton's Cradle (1967) * Quantum Computers (1981) * Buckyballs (1985) * Hubble Telescope (1990) * Stephen Hawking on Star Trek (1993) * Dark Energy (1998) * Cosmological Big Rip (36 Billion) * Quantum Resurrection (> 100 Trillion) * And many more "Pickover inspires a new generation of da Vincis to build unknown flying machines and create new Mona Lisas."

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