Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics

An engaging exploration of beauty in physics, with a foreword by Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose

The concept of symmetry has widespread manifestations and many diverse applications—from architecture to mathematics to science. Yet, as twentieth-century physics has revealed, symmetry has a special, central role in nature, one that is occasionally and enigmatically violated. Fearful Symmetry brings the incredible discoveries of the juxtaposition of symmetry and asymmetry in contempo...