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Published
Harvard University Press, February 2014
ISBN
9780674725010
Format
Hardcover, 276 pages

The Perfect Wave With Neutrinos at the Boundary of Space and Time by

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Almost weightless and able to pass through the densest materials with ease, neutrinos may offer answers to questions ranging from relativity and quantum mechanics to more radical theories about dark energy and supersymmetry. The author serves as our fluent guide to a particle world that tests the boundaries of space, time, and human knowledge.

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