Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire: The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta Audiobook (Free)

Bringing together the very best & most interesting science stories appearing in Quanta Magazine over the past five years, Alice and Bob Meet up with the Wall of Flames reports on a number of the greatest scientific minds as they test the limits of human knowledge. It communicates science by taking it seriously, wrestling with tough concepts, and clearly explaining them in a way that speaks to our innate curiosity about our world and ourselves.

In the title story, Alice and Bob-beloved characters of various about Alice and Bob Meet up with the Wall of Fire: THE LARGEST Ideas in Science from Quanta thought tests in physics-grapple with gravitational forces, possible spaghettification, and an enormous wall of fire as Alice jumps right into a black hole. Another story considers whether the universe is difficult, in light of experimental outcomes at the Huge Hadron Collider. We find out about quantum actuality and the mystery of quantum entanglement; explore the source of time’s arrow; and witness a eureka instant when a quantum physicist exclaims: ‘Finally, we can realize why a sit down elsewhere equilibrates in an area.’ We reflect on humans’ tremendous skulls and the Brain Boom; consider the evolutionary benefits of loneliness; peel back the levels of the most recent artificial-intelligence algorithms. These stories from Quanta give us a front-row chair to scientific breakthrough.