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    • Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos
    • By: Geraint F. Lewis, Luke A. Barnes
    • Narrated by: Geraint F. Lewis, Luke A. Barnes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Join us on a journey through how we understand the universe, from its most basic particles and forces to planets, stars, and galaxies, and back through cosmic history to the birth of the cosmos....

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    • The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta
    • By: Thomas Lin - editor, Sean Carroll - foreword
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • Bringing together the best and most interesting science stories appearing in Quanta Magazine over the past five years, Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire reports on some of the greatest scientific minds as they test the limits of human knowledge....

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    • The History of 14 Billion Years for People Short on Time
    • By: Dr. Becky Smethurst
    • Narrated by: Dr. Becky Smethurst
    • Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • Oxford University astrophysicist and popular YouTube personality Dr. Becky Smethurst presents everything you need to know about the universe in 10 accessible and engaging lessons....

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    • The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
    • By: Steven Weinberg
    • Narrated by: Stuart Langton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • Intellectually daring, rich in anecdote and aphorism, Dreams of a Final Theory launches us into a new cosmos and helps us make sense of what we find there....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: John Polkinghorne
    • Narrated by: Dennis Holland
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Quantum theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world....

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    • The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe
    • By: Martin J. Rees
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • There are deep connections between stars and atoms, between the cosmos and the microworld. Just six numbers, imprinted in the "Big Bang", determine the essential features of our entire physical world. Moreover, cosmic evolution is astonishingly sensitive to the values of these numbers....

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    • The Physics of Time - and the Ephemeral Moment That Einstein Could Not Explain
    • By: Richard A. Muller
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 598 ratings
    • You are reading the word now right now. But what does that mean? What makes the ephemeral moment "now" so special? Its enigmatic character has bedeviled philosophers....

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    • An Astronomer’s Guide
    • By: Jo Dunkley
    • Narrated by: Jo Dunkley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • Most of us have heard of black holes and supernovas, galaxies and the big bang. But few of us understand more than the bare facts about the universe we call home. What is really out there? How did it all begin? Where are we going? Jo Dunkley begins in Earth's neighborhood....

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    • The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
    • By: M. Mitchell Waldrop
    • Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 269 ratings
    • In a rarified world of scientific research, a revolution has been brewing. Its activists are not anarchists, but rather Nobel Laureates in physics and economics and pony-tailed graduates, mathematicians, and computer scientists from all over the world. They have formed an iconoclastic think-tank....

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    • How Two Great Minds Battled Quantum Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics
    • By: Paul Halpern
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 488 ratings
    • Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger were friends and comrades-in-arms against what they considered the most preposterous aspects of quantum physics: its indeterminacy....

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    • Science and the Human Spirit
    • By: Alan Lightman
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 259 ratings
    • From the best-selling author of Einstein's Dreams comes this lyrical and insightful collection of science writing that delves into the mysteries of the scientific process - physics, astronomy, mathematics - and exposes its beauty and intrigue....

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    • A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity
    • By: Pedro G. Ferreira
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,050 ratings
    • Physicists have been exploring, debating, and questioning the general theory of relativity ever since Albert Einstein first presented it in 1915....

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    • A Life Inside the Center
    • By: Ray Monk
    • Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
    • Length: 35 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 348 ratings
    • Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men....

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    • Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
    • By: Roger Penrose
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • In this absorbing and frequently contentious book, Roger Penrose puts forward his view that there are some facets of human thinking that can never be emulated by a machine. The book's central concern is what philosophers call the "mind-body problem". He examines what physics can tell us....

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    • The Hidden 95% of the Universe
    • By: Brian Clegg
    • Narrated by: Mark Cameron
    • Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial five per cent of everything....

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    • By: Fritjof Capra
    • Narrated by: Michael McConnohoi
    • Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-00
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 481 ratings
    • "Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science; but man needs them both." These are the words of Fritjof Capra...

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    • The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
    • By: Michael Brooks
    • Narrated by: James Adams
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,566 ratings
    • In 13 Things That Don't Make Sense, Michael Brooks heads to the scientific frontier to meet thirteen modern-day anomalies and discover tomorrow's breakthroughs....

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    • The Book of the BBC TV Series Presented by Professor Brian Cox
    • By: Andrew Cohen, Professor Brian Cox - foreword
    • Narrated by: Brian Cox, Professor Jot Davies
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Andrew Cohen takes listeners on a voyage of discovery via the probes and telescopes exploring the outer reaches of our galaxy, revealing how it was formed and how it will inevitably be destroyed by the enigmatic black hole at its heart....

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    • The Invention and Discovery of the 'God Particle'
    • By: Jim Baggott, Steven Weinberg - foreword
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • The hunt for the Higgs particle has involved the biggest, most expensive experiment ever. So exactly what is this particle? Why does it matter so much? Did the discovery announced on July 4, 2012 finish the search? And was finding it really worth all the effort? The short answer is yes....

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