The Second Kind of Impossible Steinhardt Paul
The Second Kind of Impossible Steinhardt Paul One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of matter. The Second Kind of…
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The Second Kind of Impossible Steinhardt Paul
One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible is the story of Steinhardt's thirty-five-year-long quest to challenge conventional wisdom. "A riveting tale of derring-do" (Nature), this book reads like James Gleick's Chaos combined with an Indiana Jones adventure.When leading Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt began working in the 1980s, scientists thought they knew all the conceivable forms of matter.
Steinhardt dubs this new form of matter "quasicrystal." The rest of the It begins with a curious geometric pattern that inspires two theoretical physicists to propose a radically new type of matter--one that raises the possibility of new materials with never before seen properties, but that violates laws set in stone for centuries.