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Perils of physics

October 14, 2023 1 Comment
Perils of physics

Who would have thought that anyone could write a novel about theoretical physics that it would be impossible to put down till you’d got to its end? But that’s exactly what Benjamin Labatut has done with When we cease to understand the world, published by Pushkin Press in 2020. Labatut is as universalist as his […]

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