这篇应该是读书目录trilogy的最后一篇。再过几天就是2020年了,the roaring 20's the JAZZ age. 虽然还会继续读书,虽然也许依旧会在科学的世界里忘却人世间的激昂与乏味美丽与哀愁,但,应该不会再继续贴书目鸟。三年的静心读书,三年的苦苦思索人生的意义生命的初衷,最后的答案就是此题无解没有答案或者说有无穷解就如一道初中时代的只有一个已知equation的三元三次方程,然,在吾欲上下而求索的过程中却偶遇inner peace. 是的,science is all about serendipity, 而这份inner peace就是人生最美的serendipity。
Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality. By Anil Ananthaswamy. 这本书大概是唯一的一本读过之后在不到一个月的时间内就情不自禁再读一次的书。虽然quantum mechanics的书读了很多, 虽然对double-slits波粒二相性Bell theorem spooky connection这些topics早已熟悉,但,整本书只是围绕 double-slits这一主题的书,却是第一次读。而在读过那些21世纪最cutting edge的double-slits实验数据之后,以逻辑与科学之名,唯一的科学和理性的结论就是对这个世界reality的fundamental level应有的真实与怀疑。卿本佳人,奈何做贼?on the same token, 如果这世界的真实性只存在于stochastic的sense里,那么,我们怎么可能没有forever inner peace?
anyway, 无论用中文还是用英文,我是无法写明白我想说的,人类的语言,和人类的科学一样落后在a disgustingly low level of form that matches homo spaiens impeccably, 所以,无需多言,开始贴书目。
这些书多是第一次读,也有些是一读再读。
Jan 6 - The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. By Doris Kearns Goodwin. Well worth reading.
Jan 13 - The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age. by Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin. Well worth reading.
Jan 20 - Woodrow Wilson: A Biography. By John Milton Cooper. Worth reading.
Jan 28 - Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt. By Edward P. Kohn. Worth Reading.
Feb 7 - The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914. By Barbara W. Tuchman. Worth Reading.
Feb 15 - Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul. By Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon. Worth Reading.
Feb 23 - Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World. By Mark Pendergrast. Some worth reading.
Feb 28 - The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number. By Mario Livio. Worth reading.
Mar 6 - A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing. By Lawrence M. Krauss. Worth reading.
Mar 8 - Hidden in Plain Sight 3: The Secret Of Time. By Andrew H. Thomas. Some worth reading.
Mar 18 - The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe. By Anil Ananthaswamy. Well worth reading.
Mar 26 - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World. By Steve Brusatte. Well worth reading.
Mar 30 - Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics (The Frontiers Collection). By Henry P. Stapp. Not worth reading.
Apr 7 - The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. By Simon Winchester. Well worth reading.
Apr 12 Journey to the Centre of the Earth. By Jules Verne. Worth reading.
Apr 14 - Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery. By Agatha Christie. Worth reading.
May 1 - Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy. By Kip S. Thorne. Well worth reading. One of the best science books I ever read. A perfect mixture of science and science history, both absorbing, and amazingly the science history parts actually help to understand the science parts of the book. A great pleasure reading this book from the beginning to the end.
May 13 - A Brief History of Time. By Stephen Hawking. Worth reading.
May 18 - The Universe in a Nutshell. By Stephen Hawking. Worth reading.
May 20 - From the Earth to the Moon. By Jules Verne. Worth reading.
May 31 - Travels with Charley in Search of America. By John Steinbeck. Well worth reading.
June 5 - The Hunt for Vulcan: And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe. By Thomas Levenson. Worth reading.
Jun 15 - Six Not-so-easy Pieces: Einsteins Reality, Symmetry, and Space-time. By Richard Feynman. Well worth reading.
Jun 17 - Confessions of a Shopaholic. By Sophie Kinsella. Well worth reading.
Jun 22 - How Physics Confronts Reality. By Roger G. Newton. Worth reading.
Jun 29 - Freedom and Determinism: topics in Contemporary Philosophy. Edited by Joseph K Campbell, Michael O’Rourke and David Shier. Some worth reading.
Jul 7 - Einstein, Physics and Reality. By Jagsish Mehra. Some worth reading.
Jul 10 - The Grand Design. By Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. Worth reading.
Jul 22 - 1492: The Year the World Began. By Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. Well worth reading.
Jul 27 - Lean In. By Sheryl Sandberg. Worth reading.
Aug 11 - The Indian Ocean. By Michael Pesrson. Worth reading.
Aug 17 - The Vacationers, A Novel. By Emma Straub. Not worth reading.
Aug 25 - All the Light We Cannot See : A Novel. By Anthony Doerr. Well worth reading.
Aug 30 - Physics of the Universe. By Mendel Sachs. Worth reading.
Sep 2 - The Rosie Project. By Graeme Simsion. Well worth reading.
Sep 10 - How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. By Ray Kurzweil. Well worth reading.
Sep 12 - Destination Unknown. By Agatha Christie. Worth reading.
Sep 22 - The Tipping Point. By Malcolm Gladwell. Worth reading.
Oct 4 - Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality. By Anil Ananthaswamy. Well worth reading.
Oct 8 - A Guide to Weather. By W J Burroughs, B Crowder, T Robertson, E Vallier-Talbot, R Whitaker. Worth reading.
Oct 12 - Endless Night. By Agatha Christie. Worth Reading.
Oct 15 - Third Girl. By Agatha Christie. Worth reading.
Oct 25 - Lost in Mongolia. By Colin Angus, Worth reading.
Nov 2 - Sight Unseen: An Exploration of Conscious and Unconscious Vision. By Melvyn A. Goodale and A. David Milner, Worth reading.
Nov 10 - Thermodynamic Universe: Exploring The Limits Of Physics: Exploring the Limits of Physics . By B. G. Sidharth. Worth reading.
Nov 12 - Poirot Investigates. By Agatha Christie. Worth reading.
Nov 20 - Quantum Mechanics and Experience. By David Z. Albert. Worth reading.
Nov 30 - Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality. By Anil Ananthaswamy. Well worth reading.
Dec 2 - Three Blind Mice and Other Stories. By Agatha Christie. Worth reading.
Dec 7 - Lord Edgware Dies. By Agatha Christie. Well worth reading.
Dec 15 - Evil Under the Sun. By Agatha Christie. Well worth reading.
Dec 20 - The Murder on the Links. By Agatha Christie. Well worth reading.
Dec 26 - Eureka!: Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed the World. By Leslie Alan Horvitz. Well worth reading.