The Most Honest Physics Textbook Ever

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The Most Honest Physics Textbook Ever

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The most brutally honest physics textbook introduction ever written! The progression is perfect - Aristotle's incorrect theories, Galileo and Newton establishing classical mechanics, Einstein shattering everything with relativity... and then that magnificent punchline. "We've basically got it all worked out" except for, you know, everything that actually matters. Quantum mechanics (small stuff), cosmology (big stuff), thermodynamics (hot/cold stuff), relativity (fast stuff), gravity (heavy stuff), dark matter/energy (dark stuff), fluid dynamics (turbulence), and the fundamental nature of time itself. Just those tiny details! Physics in a nutshell: centuries of brilliant minds only to discover how spectacularly clueless we still are.

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