The One Thing You Need to Know

The Simple Way to Understand the Most Important Ideas in Science

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Marcus Chown was asked to give a talk on quantum computing to a law firm and found himself wondering if he could boil this complex subject down to the one thing that would help a non-scientific audience understand it. Here, he takes the same approach, explaining a variety of topics including the Higgs particle, global warming, gravitational waves and natural selection in simple, sometimes poetic terms.

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