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003			OCoLC
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019			_a707329303
008			111019s2011 nyuaf b 001 0 eng
020			_a9780802715135 (hc. : alk. paper)
020			_a0802715133 (hc. : alk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)757730904 _z(OCoLC)707329303
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050	1	4	_aQC20 _b.W46 2011
082	0	4	_a530.1 _223
100	1		_aWertheim, Margaret.
245	1	0	_aPhysics on the fringe : _bsmoke rings, circlons, and alternative theories of everything / _cMargaret Wertheim.
250			_a1st U.S. ed.
260			_aNew York, N.Y. : _bWalker & Co., _cc2011.
300			_ax, 323 p., [16] p. of plates : _bill. (chiefly col.) ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-314) and index.
505	0		_aA trailer park owner imagines the world -- Outsider science. Under the hood of the universe ; Counterpart universes "excisting" ; 'A budget of paradoxes' -- Jim's world. There's diggers, and there's everyone else ; The four sexes ; Circlon science ; Smoke rings ; Creating the world ; Gravity and levity -- Sciences of imaginary solutions. A reformation of science? ; Swimming physicists ; Tree rings -- Appendix. 'The principles of circlon synchronicity and the living universe' / by James Carter.
520			_aCenturies ago, natural philosophers puzzled out the laws of nature using the tools of observation and experimentation. Today, theoretical physics has become mathematically inscrutable, accessible only to an elite few. In rejecting this abstraction, outsider theorists insist that nature speaks a language we can all understand. Through a profoundly human profile of Jim Carter, Wertheim's exploration of the bizarre world of fringe physics challenges our conception of what science is, how it works, and who it is for. Jim Carter, the Einstein of outsiders, has developed his own complete theory of matter and energy and gravity that he demonstrates with experiments in his backyard'-with garbage cans and a disco fog machine he makes smoke rings to test his ideas about atoms.
650		0	_aPhysics. _93083
650		0	_aMathematical physics.
650		0	_aGrand unified theories (Nuclear physics)
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