Andrew Zimmerman Jones is a science and science fiction writer, most notably known for the writing and editing of the About.com Physics Blog and for String Theory for Dummies. He is (among other things) an Eagle Scout, a Mensan, and a Freemason.
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- Location:
- Anderson, IN, 46012
- Birthday:
- October 14, 1976
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- IHS Holiday Author Fair
Indiana History Center
Saturday, December 5 at 12:00pm
In an intriguing take on the Large Hadron Collider, authors Anton Radevsky & Emma Sanders have (together with collaboration from CERN and UK publishing house Papadakis) created a pop-up book ba...more
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had his first interview about STRING THEORY FOR DUMMIES today, with the wonderful people at Indiana Public Radio out of Muncie. It'll air thrice tomorrow during their All Things Considered news broadcast, from 4:00 to 7:00 pm. It'll be on the half-hour (4:30, 5:30, & 6:30) if it's edited down to 5 minutes, and if it's ...10 minutes (which the interviewer says is probable) it'll be at 4:50, 5:50, 6:50.
For those who aren't in range, you can listen online!Read More
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Andrew Zimmerman Jones
The Indiana Historical Society is hosting their Seventh Annual Holiday Author Fair, at the Indiana History Center in Indianapolis, IN. It will be on December 5, from noon until 4:00 pm. It's an impressive list of authors.
Location:
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269
Time:12:00PM Saturday, December 5th
Location:Indiana History Center
Andrew Zimmerman Jones Free Sample: I'm still building my string theory site (delayed on account of life), but I've posted this free sample from the book already - the complete table of contents, Introduction, and the "Part of Tens" which includes "Ten Questions a Theory of Everything Should (Ideally) Answer" and "Ten Notable String Theorists."
Source: stringtheory.azjones.info
Andrew Zimmerman Jones STRING THEORY FOR DUMMIES is now in stock on Amazon.com, and available through your local bookstores! Buy directly through this link.
Source: www.amazon.com
Amazon.com: String Theory For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science)) (9780470467244): Andrew Zimmerman Jones: Books
Over at the About.com Birding site, there's a report that a bird dropped a piece of bread into a cooling unit at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The piece of baguette caused irregularities in the ...more
Many recent theoretical physics ideas allow for the possibility that our universe is part of a multiverse - a set of distinct alternate universes. Both particle physics and cosmology, for various r...more
No, it's not the great pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Physicists are kept up by questions about the very nature of space, time, and reality itself ... and New Scientist has broken these concerns down into...more
Andrew Zimmerman Jones According to Brian Cox's Twitter feed - "Got to say that my interview on Colbert was the most enjoyable I've ever done. I have honestly never been asked such intelligent questions!" - also enjoyable to watch!
Comedy Central's resident faux-pundit, Stephen Colbert, interviewed rock star particle physicist (and People magazine's sexiest physicist) Brian Cox on the October 28 episode of The Colbert Report....more
Andrew Zimmerman Jones Thanks to the miracle that is Google Alerts, I bring you this amusing String Theory comic.
Source: www.gocomics.com
Brewster Rockit is an unlikely captain. He’s woefully ill-prepared to lead ... and that’s part of his charm. Orbiting the stars in the space station R.U. Sirius, Brewster and his crew of misfits encounter a constantly challenging set of interplanetary anomalies. ...
Andrew Zimmerman Jones Wiley Publishing has posted the "Cheat Sheet" for STRING THEORY FOR DUMMIES on their website. Check it out and let me know what you think!
Source: www.dummies.com
String theory, often called the theory of everything, is a relatively young science that includes such unusual concepts as superstrings, branes, and extra dimensions. Scientists are hopeful ...
So while there are many weird physics theories out there, this latest one linked to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has even my scratching my head. Turns out that physicists Holger Bech Nielsen (of...more
Theater majors around the world might do well to take some extra science classes, because science - and physics - are showing up in strange places all around the world of theater these days.Conside...more
One concept of interest in physics in recent years has been the idea of a magnetic monopole - a magnet that doesn't come in a coupled pair of north/south poles, but is just a single pole. In theore...more
