The Impossible in Science: Investigating Mysterious Artifacts
15 hrs. 52 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Alexander Nikonov
Author
Alexander Nikonov
Narrator
Filipp Matveev-Vitovsky
Narrator
Filipp Matveev-Vitovsky
Description
Learn everything about science and nature.
Alexander Nikonov is a journalist, publicist, writer, and science popularizer. With five minutes to go before becoming a PhD, he abandoned an almost completed dissertation, left for journalism and writing—where, to be fair, he did quite well… He became a laureate of awards from the Union of Journalists of Russia (2001) and the Union of Journalists of Moscow (2002). For his contribution to Russian culture he received the Pushkin Medal (1999), and for the book “Monkey Upgrade” he won the Belyaev Prize (2005).
In the audiobook “The Impossible in Science,” the author of many popular-science publications tries to understand the nature and interconnection of strange events and phenomena that official science either does not recognize at all, or recognizes but cannot explain.
What is the nature of ball lightning?
What will happen if a tornado is twisted into a ring?
Who leaves “circles” in the fields?
How can you turn ordinary metal into gold? And where is the boundary between physics and alchemy?
Entering the path of war with the riddles of nature, Alexander Nikonov reflects on a body of completely unexplained mystical stories that happened to real people. In a sense, this is a traveler’s diary of a researcher who set out to grasp the impossible: eyewitness accounts, undeniable facts, breakthrough ideas, and unexpected hypotheses—so that the reader can follow the course of the investigation in real time. All kinds of graphs and diagrams, the author’s sketches, rare laboratory photographs, and other illustrations make the impossible feel real.
Alexander Nikonov is a journalist, publicist, writer, and science popularizer. With five minutes to go before becoming a PhD, he abandoned an almost completed dissertation, left for journalism and writing—where, to be fair, he did quite well… He became a laureate of awards from the Union of Journalists of Russia (2001) and the Union of Journalists of Moscow (2002). For his contribution to Russian culture he received the Pushkin Medal (1999), and for the book “Monkey Upgrade” he won the Belyaev Prize (2005).
In the audiobook “The Impossible in Science,” the author of many popular-science publications tries to understand the nature and interconnection of strange events and phenomena that official science either does not recognize at all, or recognizes but cannot explain.
What is the nature of ball lightning?
What will happen if a tornado is twisted into a ring?
Who leaves “circles” in the fields?
How can you turn ordinary metal into gold? And where is the boundary between physics and alchemy?
Entering the path of war with the riddles of nature, Alexander Nikonov reflects on a body of completely unexplained mystical stories that happened to real people. In a sense, this is a traveler’s diary of a researcher who set out to grasp the impossible: eyewitness accounts, undeniable facts, breakthrough ideas, and unexpected hypotheses—so that the reader can follow the course of the investigation in real time. All kinds of graphs and diagrams, the author’s sketches, rare laboratory photographs, and other illustrations make the impossible feel real.
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