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(repost) Road to Reality A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe Penrose (2004) pdf Torrent

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For mensa/TNS types out there still languishing in places where 79 percent of the adult population can't answer all three of these basic science questions correctly: 'How long does it take the Earth to revolve around the sun? Did the earliest humans and dinosaurs live at the same time? What percentage of the Earth's surface is covered with water?', here's a repost of Penrose's 'Road to Reality - A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe' as a fully bookmarked .pdf optimized for a 50cm/20in LCD display.

From the Preface:

The purpose of this book is to convey to the reader some feeling for what is surely one of the most important and exciting voyages of discovery that humanity has embarked upon. This is the search for the underlying principles that govern the behaviour of our universe. It is a voyage that has lasted for more than two-and-a-half millennia, so it should not surprise us that substantial progress has at last been made.

Caveat:

The reader will find that in this book I have not shied away from presenting mathematical formulae, despite dire warnings of the severe reduction in readership that this will entail. I have thought seriously about this question, and have come to the conclusion that what I have to say cannot reasonably be conveyed without a certain amount of mathematical notation and the exploration of genuine mathematical concepts.

A good complimentary file might be Wilczek's 'Lightness of Being' which was uploaded by TQW recently (wonder if that's short for triple quantum well).

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