TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steinhardt,Paul J.
TI  - The second kind of impossible: the extraordinary quest for a new form of matter 
SN  - 9781476729923
AV  - QC176 .S76 2019
U1  - 530.4/1 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Solid state physics
KW  - Physicists
KW  - Diaries
KW  - Interstellar matter
KW  - Matter
N1  - Includes index; Impossible! -- The Penrose puzzle -- Finding the loophole -- A tale of two laboratories -- Something exciting to show you -- Perfectly impossible -- Did nature beat us? -- Luca -- Quasi-happy new year -- When you say impossible -- Blue team vs. red team -- A capricious if not overtly malicious God -- The secret secret diary -- Valery Kryachko -- Something rare surrounding something impossible -- Icosahedrite -- Lost -- Found -- Ninety-nine percent -- Beating the odds -- L'uomo dei miracoli -- Nature's secret
N2  - "One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible reads like James Gleick's Chaos combined with an Indiana Jones adventure"--
ER  -