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Biographical note
Joseph Conlon is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford and a fellow of New College. His research spans particle physics, string theory, cosmology and astrophysics. He is the author of Why String Theory?, a Physics World Book of the Year in 2016, and has authored over seventy scientific papers.
<p>'<strong>Brilliant</strong>, "restructuring the known existing facts", to make this <strong>admirable, entertaining, attractive</strong> account of the origin of the Universe.' — Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell</p>
<p>'<strong>The universe is intrinsically poetic, but rarely does someone with expert credentials endeavor to describe it in that mode</strong>. Joseph Conlon's two extended poems offer<strong> a glimpse into the workings of the universe in galloping verse rich with imagery</strong>.' —Sean Carroll, author of <em>The Biggest Ideas in the Universe</em></p>
<p>'This book offers readers an inventive and refreshing opportunity to engage with modern cosmology, at the same time as contributing to our culture’s long tradition of connecting science with verse.'</p>
Nature Astronomy
<p>'<strong>Joe Conlon is a marvel</strong>. His subject – the origin of the universe and our efforts to comprehend it – is vaster and stranger than anything in English poetry. But<strong> these fizzy, nonchalantly rhymed, eminently readable poems are also a masterclass in simile</strong>. "Elements" and "Galaxies" will tell you about the structure of a hydrogen atom, various intriguing characters in the history of modern physics, and why galaxies’ quantum origins ("rough seas of storm-tossed noise") might resemble Twitter.' —Hannah Sullivan, T. S. Eliot Prize-winning author of <em>Three Poems</em></p>
<p>'Absolutely wonderful... remarkable... What a gift to the cosmologists and non-cosmologists of the world!'</p>
- Latham Boyle, Cosmologist at the University of Edinburgh,
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Joseph Conlon is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford and a fellow of New College. His research spans particle physics, string theory, cosmology and astrophysics. He is the author of Why String Theory?, a Physics World Book of the Year in 2016, and has authored over seventy scientific papers.