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  • The Magick of Physics

    Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life

    by Felix Flicker ...
    An award-winning Oxford physicist draws on classic sci-fi, fantasy fiction, and everyday phenomena to explain and celebrate the magical properties of condensed matter physics and the world around us.If you were to present the feats of modern science to someone from the past, those feats would surely be considered magic. Theoretical physicist Felix Flicker proves that they are indeed magic—just ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    The Magick of Matter

    Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics

    by Felix Flicker ...
    Narrated by Barnaby Edwards ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 6 min

    'This is a book about wizardry. It will reveal the secrets of the wizard's art, and how you, too, can learn to follow them. It is a history of magic'Condensed matter physics is what happens when atoms cluster together to make something of a size we can understand - something like a car, say, rather than a galaxy. It's what makes things hover in mid-air (magnetic levitation) or crystals glow ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    The Magick of Physics

    Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life

    by Felix Flicker ...
    Narrated by Barnaby Edwards ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 7 min

    An award-winning Oxford physicist draws on classic sci-fi, fantasy fiction, and everyday phenomena to explain and celebrate the magical properties of condensed matter physics and the world around us.If you were to present the feats of modern science to someone from the past, those feats would surely be considered magic. Theoretical physicist Felix Flicker proves that they are indeed magic—just ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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