{"product_id":"trespassing-on-einsteins-lawn-a-father-a-daughter-the-meaning-of-nothing-and-the-beginning-of-everything","title":"Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn: A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gefter, Amanda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Kindle Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Kindle eBook\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 434\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 14-01-2014\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eKIRKUS REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a memoir of family bonding and cutting-edge physics for readers of Brian Greene’s \u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Reality \u003c\/i\u003eand Jim Holt’s \u003ci\u003eWhy Does the World Exist?,\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAt a Chinese restaurant outside of Philadelphia, a father asks his fifteen-year-old daughter a deceptively simple question: “How would you define nothing?” With that, the girl who once tried to fail geometry as a conscientious objector starts reading up on general relativity and quantum mechanics, as she and her dad embark on a life-altering quest for the answers to the universe’s greatest mysteries.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        \u003cbr\u003e Before Amanda Gefter became an accomplished science writer, she was a twenty-one-year-old magazine assistant willing to sneak her and her father, Warren, into a conference devoted to their physics hero, John Wheeler. Posing as journalists, Amanda and Warren met Wheeler, who offered them cryptic clues to the nature of reality: \u003ci\u003eThe universe is a self-excited circuit, \u003c\/i\u003ehe said. And, \u003ci\u003eThe boundary of a boundary is zero.\u003c\/i\u003e Baffled, Amanda and Warren vowed to decode the phrases—and with them, the enigmas of existence. \u003ci\u003eWhen we solve all that, \u003c\/i\u003ethey agreed, \u003ci\u003ewe’ll write a book.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTrespassing on Einstein’s Lawn\u003c\/i\u003e is that book, a memoir of the impassioned hunt that takes Amanda and her father from New York to London to Los Alamos. Along the way, they bump up against quirky science and even quirkier personalities, including Leonard Susskind, the former Bronx plumber who invented string theory; Ed Witten, the soft-spoken genius who coined the enigmatic M-theory; even Stephen Hawking.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e What they discover is extraordinary: the beginnings of a monumental\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780345539632\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PENNYPART.COM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42440255242494,"sku":"B00E2RYTJA","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0414\/0200\/7704\/products\/51JcCYxejML.jpg?v=1644643798","url":"https:\/\/pennypart.com\/products\/trespassing-on-einsteins-lawn-a-father-a-daughter-the-meaning-of-nothing-and-the-beginning-of-everything","provider":"PENNYPART.COM","version":"1.0","type":"link"}