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A combination of the opportunity to study anatomy instead and a detestation for math drove me to take a high level foreign language course instead. He has received many awards for his work promoting science, including the prestigious british association lord kelvin award and, in 2010, an obe. The great physicist richard feynmans quotation mentioned in the book that i think i can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. In their new book, the physicists brian cox and jeff forshaw adopt feynmans clockface device, but press even further. An aweinspiring, unforgettable journey of scientific exploration from brian cox and jeff forshaw, the international bestselling authors of why does emc2. Oct 19, 2011 everything that can happen does happen the first in a series, watch brian cox and jeff forshaw use quantum mechanics to discuss why we dont fall through the floor. Here, brian cox and jeff forshaw give us the real science, and reveal the profound theories that allow pdf for concrete, yet astonishing, predictions about the world. Brian cox is a professor of particle physics and royal society university research fellow at the university of manchester. But some of the most fascinating and important stories are those that explain atoms and star stuff. The book aims to provide an explanation of quantum mechanics and its impact on the modern world that is accessible to a general reader.
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