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Charles Liu

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

Yeah.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

And your description is exactly right, Chuck.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

I wrote that book specifically to say, hey, you could take it in whatever size pieces you want and whatever level you want to go at it.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

You're very kind.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

Thank you very much.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

No, I would say...

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

If you want to go deeper into the mathematics, because the handy quantum physics answer book and many of the other books about these topics are usually talking about deep concepts and ideas, but those ideas arose from the mathematical and the scientific depths.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

of really trying to wrestle with the equations that described how the universe works or the calculations or the measurements that would give us a clue about how the universe works.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

So if you want, I'll just mention this.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

There is a group called OpenStacks.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

S-T-A-X.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

And it is free for anyone who wishes.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

It's basically a set of textbooks.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

These are textbooks that are legitimately for people who want to learn or to major in something or to do, but

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

It's free on the internet.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

And I encourage anybody who wants to look at some of those things to see, like, get a little taste of what an actual textbook looks like and see if you want to go deeper into it.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

See if you want to drink deeply of that Stygian spring.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

Or if you would rather just have a little knowledge, which, of course, as Alexander Pope says, is a dangerous thing.

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

Is that it?

StarTalk Radio
Cosmic Queries โ€“ Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

To waste or otherwise.