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The Nature of Reality The physics of nothing, everything, and all things in-between Read the blog.
The Elegant Universe: Series Overview Eleven dimensions, parallel universes, and a world made out of strings. It's not science fiction, it's string theory. Watch the series.
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Physics & Math

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Describing Nature With Math

How do scientists use mathematics to define reality? And why?
Design a Fractal

Create and save your own wildly colorful fractals using our generator.
Dark Matter

Physicists have a sneaking suspicion that most of the universe is held together by a mysterious, invisible substance.
Newton's Legacy

Gravity. Laws of motion. Reflecting telescope. Calculus. The list of Sir Isaac's accomplishments goes on...

How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
by David Kaiser
A Brief History of Time: The Illustrated, Updated, and Expanded Edition
by Stephen Hawking
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
by Michio Kaku
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
by Richard P. Feynman
Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by Brian Greene
Isaac Newton
by James Gleick
Einstein's Miraculous Year: Five Papers that Changed the Face of Physics
by Albert Einstein and John Stachel, editor
E = mc<sup>2</sup>: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
by David Bodanis and Simon Singh
The Fractal Geometry of Nature
by Benoit Mandelbrot
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
by Steven Weinberg
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas Hofstadter

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