As promised, the audiobook for Waves in an Impossible Sea, read by Christopher Grove, has finally come available. You can find it on Audible and on many other platforms. (Click here to order the audibook, hardback, or e-book.)
To help make the text easier to follow, I’ve put the 50+ figures, the 6 tables, and the glossary on-line. You might, for instance, choose to have them open on your phone for easy reference while you’re listening. (The endnotes are also there too, although my understanding is that Mr. Grove won’t be mentioning them as he reads, so you may need the text to make them useful.)
There are additional resources for readers already up on this website, supplementing the book, and more are coming soon, so please make use of them. Also feel free to ask me questions if you find yourself confused — and please don’t be embarrassed to do so, because the universe is confusing… even to physicists. No question is too simple; in fact, the simple ones (what is empty space? what’s a particle? why don’t we feel the Earth’s motion?) are often the hardest to answer.
6 Responses
I am really enjoying this book. You have already solved several mysteries I had been puzzling over for a while. I love the long sections on mass/matter, velocity, and waves. Plus the details regarding an atom’s internals. Of course, little of this was mentioned in the physics lectures required for my undergrad and grad chemistry degrees but I did learn the various “lies” you speak of and appreciate your pointing out their shortcomings. As an analytical spectroscopist, I am eating up the stuff about photons. You pull back the curtain in a way I find very satisfying pedagogically. Well done.
I haven’t finished the book yet and came here for the figures & tables but thought I’d comment on the depth of treatment and its newness to me. How fortunate that extremely technical subjects can be written about at this level and yet still be aimed at non-physicists. Thanks for helping me to better understand the world.
Thank you for these kind words! I am very pleased to hear that someone in an adjacent scientific field can find so much to enjoy in it.
Do you know if the audiobook has a release window for the Australian region on Audible? I’d love to pick up a copy 🙂
My publisher is looking into it.
Awesome, thank you!
The publisher has started the paperwork and it should be resolved soon. I would check back with Audible every few days. If I’m informed about it, I’ll reply again here, but you may know before me!