Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science

7 best books like Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science (Ian Sample): The Day We Found the Universe, Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality, Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives, Einstein's Universe, The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen, The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe, Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking

The Day We Found the Universe

Author	Marcia Bartusiak
ISBN	0375424296

On January 1, 1925, thirty-five-year-old Edwin Hubble announced the observation that ultimately established that our universe was a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed, filled with myriad galaxies like our own. This discovery dramatically reshaped how humans understood...

Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality

Author	Manjit Kumar
ISBN	1848310358

For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superbly-written history of this fundamental scientific revolution, and the divisive debate at its heart.

For...

Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives

Author	Michael Specter
ISBN	1594202303

In this provocative and headline-making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet.

In Denialism, New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially...

Einstein's Universe

Author	Nigel Calder
ISBN	0517385708

This has, in effect, redefined the way I look at the world. Calder goes through both the special and general theories or relativity, strips out all the math, and explains everything in plain English with clear analogies. I think this was published somewhere around 1979, so much has transpired in the...

The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen

Author	Brian Cox
ISBN	1846144329

In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible;and fascinating to everyone.

The subatomic realm has a reputation for weirdness, spawning any number...

The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

Author	Anil Ananthaswamy
ISBN	0618884688

In this deeply original book, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy sets out in search of the telescopes and detectors that promise to answer the biggest questions in modern cosmology. Why is the universe expanding at an ever faster rate? What is the nature of the "dark matter" that makes up almost a quarter...

Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking

Author	Charles Seife
ISBN	0670020338

The author of Zero looks at the messy history of the struggle to harness fusion energy .

When weapons builders detonated the first hydrogen bomb in 1952, they tapped into the vastest source of energy in our solar system--the very same phenomenon that makes the sun shine. Nuclear fusion was a...