 | A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $2.74 Stephen Hawking is the master at describing the complex theories of the universe in lucid way.
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 | Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.36 Not strictly a text on Quantum Physics, but a collection of entertaining stories that includes the subject by Nobel Prize Winner Richard Feynman
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 | Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries by John Gribbin
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $0.01 Grobbin lays out the problems and conundrums involved with Quantum Physics and gives as clear an explanaition as possible
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 | Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Lisa Randall
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $2.68 Holy Cow, this is the hottest physicist you are ever likely to meet. Good book, too.
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 | Elemental Mind: Human Consciousness and the New Physics by Nick Herbert
Buy used from: $0.78 Herbert is another who is able to describe and compare the competing theories of everything in an understandable way for the layman.
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 | The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
Buy used from: $3.90 Greene does an excellent job of trying to synthesize the various theories of everything.
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 | Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimens ion by Michio Kaku
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.35 Kaku summarizes the Kluza-Klein theories of extra-dimensions and how they may unify the other theories.
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 | Is Nature Supernatural? A Philosophical Exploration of Science and Nature by Simon L. Altmann
Buy new: $39.98 / Used from: $16.48 Altman provides a TOME here, a gigantic overview of the problems with defining nature at the sub-atomic level.
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 | Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality by Dean Radin
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $4.75 Why am I even including a book with 'Etrasensory Experiences' in the title? Because it belongs here. Radin is not only a brilliant scientist he is an open-minded one taking him strictly and only where the data takes him. Even if he didn't want to go there.
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 | Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness (Columbia Series in Science and Religion) by B. Alan Wallace
Buy new: $17.64 / Used from: $29.58 Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize physicist -- and witty guy -- addressed the problem of consciousness and quantum physics at a conference by chiding: "Hush, hush. Close the doors." Here is what they really don't want you to know about the field.
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 | The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics by Julian Barbour
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $2.24 There is no past. There is no future. There's only the present and there might not be much of that. This is a very thoughtful text that's difficult to wrap your mind around -- but it's fun trying.
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