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Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding of the Universe Hardcover – March 28, 2024

by Harry Cliff (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
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Newly discovered strangenesses could transform our understanding of the fundamentals of physics – and of the nature of reality. In this eye-opening account, CERN experimental physicist Harry Cliff takes the reader on a tour of a new universe ...

Something strange is going on in the cosmos. Scientists are uncovering a catalogue of weird phenomena that simply can’t be explained by our long-established theories of the universe. Particles with unbelievable energies are bursting from beneath the Antarctic ice. Unknown forces seem to be tugging on the basic building blocks of matter. Stars are flying away from us far faster than anyone can explain.

In Space Oddities, Harry Cliff provides a riveting look at the universe’s most confounding puzzles. In a journey that spans continents, he meets the scientists hunting for answers, and asks: Are these anomalies accidents of nature, or could they be pointing us toward vast, hidden worlds?

With wonder, clarity, and a dose of humour, Cliff leads us on a mind-expanding investigation of physics and cosmology as they transform before us.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador (March 28, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1529092868
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1529092868
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.63 x 1.06 x 8.82 inches
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Harry Cliff

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Harry Cliff is a particle physicist at the University of Cambridge working on the LHCb experiment, a huge particle detector buried 100 metres underground at CERN near Geneva. He is a member of an international team of around 1400 physicists, engineers and computer scientists who are using LHCb to study the basic building blocks of our universe, in search of answers to some of the biggest questions in modern physics.

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He also spends a big chunk of his time sharing his love of physics with the public. His first popular science book, How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch, was published in August 2021 and his second, Space Oddities, will be published in March 2024. From 2012 to 2018 he held a joint post between Cambridge and the Science Museum in London, where he curated two major exhibitions: Collider (2013) and The Sun (2018). He has given a large number of public talks, including at TED and the Royal Institution, and made numerous appearances on television, radio and podcasts.

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Bob Cowles
5.0 out of 5 stars Filled in some missing details
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2024
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I worked with the Atlas collaboration in the naughts, not the physics but the cyber security of the LHC computing grid. In the time since I've learned a lot from Sean Carroll 's books and podcasts plus Dr Becky 's YouTube videos. One of the latter alerted me to the talk being given 40 miles from me by Wendy Freedman exactly as I was reading the chapter on the tension about the Hubble constant. The $640 cost of a one day pass made me think I could wait until next week to read the summaries of the talks at the April APS meeting in Sacramento.

As an example of the details, I had read many times of the suspicion that the hiss in the microwave antenna was caused by pigeon shit, but never that there were two nesting pigeons near the narrow part of the antenna where it was warmer inside the building. Many other examples... A great read.
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Kara Race-Moore
4.0 out of 5 stars new science
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2024
An easy to ready science book for laypeople on the cutting edge research of physics, the many, many questions we still have about our universe, and the people studying these questions. Cliff humanizes the vastly theoretical subject area by zeroing on on the humans themselves, showing how all these great big complicated questions and occasional answers all come to a human really looking at something and going "huh, that's weird" - and looking some more.
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B. Johnston
5.0 out of 5 stars Gift for granddaughter
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2024
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I bought this book after reading a positive review. It was a surprise gift for, my Astrophysicists
College major granddaughter. She loved it.
Other family members are in line to read it.
It worked out well for me, I was able not only to surprise her with something she would not have gotten for herself but look like an engaged grandparent.
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Ashlee Bree
4.0 out of 5 stars Bite-sized intel into the oddities that shape space
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2024
Arresting insight into the head-scratching conundrums of the universe that have befuddled physicists and cosmologists for decades. Whether it's outlining the ghostly behavior of neutrinos and muons, highlighting the cryptic nature of dark matter and energy, or dissecting the experimental anomalies that arise as scientists attempt to close in on a unified theory of the universe, Harry Cliff gives readers bite-sized intel into the oddities that shape our physical reality. Big and small. It's fascinating!

I think what struck me most about this book is that there's still so much we don't know about what we think we already know about the universe. For instance, there might be evidence to suggest that the so-called "standard model" in physics is wrong. Or, if not wrong, then at least missing elements that have yet to be uncovered. Incredible, really!

Definitely worth a read for all of you existential thinkers out there!
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BillyBob
4.0 out of 5 stars Fundamental Physics is a Religion
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2024
A belief that something (Theory of Everything) is possible with no proof that it is.
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AndreaRomance
4.0 out of 5 stars Engaging and easy to read
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2024
Scientists puzzle over strange cosmic phenomena that defy traditional theories. Unprecedented energies erupt from Antarctic ice, mysterious forces pull at matter, and stars accelerate inexplicably. Are these signs of a new understanding of the universe—or mere tricks of data?

Interesting and informative, this book shows how scientists explore data anomalies, searching for discoveries to further our understanding of physics. Much of the time, the original results can’t be duplicated, leading to heartbreaking disappointments. Still, the stories are engaging and easy-to-read.

Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC I received. This is my honest and voluntary review.
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dougie
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read, written so non paritcle physicisists can almost understandd it.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 23, 2024
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Space addities is a book about a subject that few peope understand, but written so the rest of us can get an appreciation of the subject, and almost understand it! The numbers alone are hard to grasp, when some are expresesd in billions of years, or distance in millions of light years. The author realizess our problems, and has labored hard to make it both readable, but almost understandable for the rest of us. Thank goodness I did not study cosmology, or theoretical physics.
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DF
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating summary of challenges facing science
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 9, 2024
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I learned a lot from this book. I know know what the Hubble Tension is!
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Jeff Clark
5.0 out of 5 stars This promises to be a good read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 7, 2024
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I am drawn to well written books about space and physics especially from 'people wot know what they are writing about' and Dr Harry Cliff certainly does know what he is writing about and he does so in an easy, clear way too. Describing these oddities in an entertaining fashion can't be easy but he has managed to peak my interest, and I am off to watch his TED talk from 2015..
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Mr Robert
5.0 out of 5 stars Enthralling
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 29, 2024
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From the first page Harry Cliff’s Space Oddities draws you in with his account of the big anomalies, past and present, in cosmology and particle physics. He writes beautifully explaining complex ideas with great clarity and humour. To quote the review in the New Scientist “A rare joy - enlightening, thrilling and inspiring”.
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