This was a great read, but it was just an excerpt...now I wanna read the full thing as it has left me at a cliffhanger.
"In a memoir of family bonding and cutting-edge physics for readers of Brian Greene’s The Hidden Reality and Jim Holt’s Why Does the World Exist?, Amanda Gefter tells the story of how she conned her way into a career as a science journalist—and wound up hanging out, talking shop, and butting heads with the world’s most brilliant minds."
http://www.amazon.com/Trespassing-Einsteins-Lawn-Beginning-Everything/dp/0345531434
http://www.amazon.com/Trespassing-Einsteins-Lawn-Beginning-Everything/dp/0345531434
A young science writer undertakes a quest to discover the underpinnings of what’s real in the universe through encounters with London rats and ontic structural realists
By Amanda Gefter
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I'd post some paragraphs from it, but they may a point to say "No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher." So I'll just give you the link and play it safe:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/schrodingers-rats-and-the-search-for-ultimate-reality-excerpt/
By Amanda Gefter
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I'd post some paragraphs from it, but they may a point to say "No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher." So I'll just give you the link and play it safe:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/schrodingers-rats-and-the-search-for-ultimate-reality-excerpt/