Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire
The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta

This book contains a considerable amount of good (and interesting) science - but, for me, it's not a good science book. A book should have structure and flow, leading the reader through its narrative. This is a collection of articles (from the website Quanta). As a result, what we've got here is a m......more

Don't let the title fool you. This is a serious, well-written book expounding some of the most fascinating ideas being thrown around in modern science at the moment. And that makes it worth going through even if you don't grasp or agree with every single topic of discussion mentioned herein.......more

A collection of articles does not make a book, and most certainly not a book on esoteric physics' topics. Many individual chapters are good Quanta articles on the website, particularly with more visuals and illustrations. However, they are far worse in a book without the power of those accouterments......more

Let's be frank, most of the time the science is entirely over my head, but very much enjoyably so. A very good book to realize how much of the proven physics of our world is very, very old by now. And how much of the "accepted knowledge" of the last 50 years is suddenly being doubted. Like with resul......more

This is a collection of science journalism articles from the mid twenty teens. As such, it shouldn't be given a hard time for going stale. Science progresses. I think the most interesting and (relatively) evergreen theme was the debate between the physicists who hold to the "naturalness principle" (......more