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0691134820 rar 0691134820 rar An engaging exploration of beauty in physics, with a foreword by Nobel Prizewinning physicist Roger Penrose The concept of symmetry has widespread manifestations and many diverse applicationsfrom architecture to mathematics to science. Yet, as twentieth-century physics has revealed, symmetry has a special, central role in nature, one that is occasionally and enigmatically violated. Fearful Symmetry brings the incredible discoveries of the juxtaposition of symmetry and asymmetry in contemporary physics within everyone's grasp. A. Zee, a distinguished physicist and skillful expositor, tells the exciting story of how contemporary theoretical physicists are following Einstein in their search for the beauty and simplicity of Nature. Animated by a sense of reverence and whimsy, Read more