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020 _a9781476729930
082 _a530.41
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100 _aSteinhardt, Paul J.
245 4 _aThe second kind of impossible : the extraordinary quest for a new form of matter /
_c Paul J Steinhardt
260 _aNew York, NY :
_bSimon & Schuster,
_c2019
300 _aviii, 387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
520 _a "One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible reads like James Gleick's Chaos combined with an Indiana Jones adventure"
650 _aSolid state physics.
650 _aPhysicists -- Diaries.
650 _aInterstellar matter.
942 _cBK
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999 _c2078
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