2024 the best apple pie recipe in the world review

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Named a Best Science Book of 2021 by Kirkus

An acclaimed experimental physicist at CERN takes you on an exhilarating search for the most basic building blocks of our universe, and the dramatic quest to unlock their cosmic origins.

"A fascinating exploration of how we learned what matter really is, and the journey matter takes from the Big Bang, through exploding stars, ultimately to you and me." (Sean Carroll)

Carl Sagan once quipped, “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” But finding the ultimate recipe for apple pie means answering some big questions: What is matter really made of? How did it escape annihilation in the fearsome heat of the Big Bang? And will we ever be able to understand the very first moments of our universe?

In How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch, Harry Cliff - a University of Cambridge particle physicist and researcher on the Large Hadron Collider - sets out in pursuit of answers. He ventures to the largest underground research facility in the world, deep beneath Italy's Gran Sasso mountains, where scientists gaze into the heart of the Sun using the most elusive of particles, the ghostly neutrino. He visits CERN in Switzerland to explore the "Antimatter Factory," where the stuff of science fiction is manufactured daily (and we're close to knowing whether it falls up). And he reveals what the latest data from the Large Hadron Collider may be telling us about the fundamental nature of matter.

Along the way, Cliff illuminates the history of physics, chemistry, and astronomy that brought us to our present understanding - and misunderstandings - of the world, while offering listeners a front-row seat to one of the most dramatic intellectual journeys human beings have ever embarked on.

A transfixing deep dive into the origins of our world, How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch examines not just the makeup of our universe, but the awe-inspiring, improbable fact that it exists at all.

Reviewer: Cameron Arnold
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Historical Dive Into Physics
Review: If you're like me, you have been hyperfixating on physics recently. You probably looked for a good physics book suggestion on Reddit, and that lead you here? You're in the right place. This book is a great view into the HISTORY of physics. This is not a "teaching" book, this is a view into the minds of those that brought us into modern physics, and the applications behind it. Great read, very thoughtfully written, and with a personal flair that stops the book from feeling dry. I'm going to try and get my friends to read it as well.

Reviewer: Carolyn
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: An engaging and fascinating exploration of the universe and how it is made and what it is made of
Review: If we want to make an apple pie from scratch, we first have to make a universe. This premise from the late Carl Sagan is the starting point for a fascinating exploration of what makes our universe - and us and apple pies - from particle physicist Harry Cliff, from the University of Cambridge and the CERN Large Hadron Collider.His writing style is engaging and often enthralling and awe inspiring. In one memorable passage he takes us through the giant particle collider at CERN from a proton's point of view.This is a book I could not recommend more highly for others who find physics fascinating, especially when presented by a world class science communicator like Dr. Cliff.

Reviewer: P. Gallay
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not to be missed
Review: If you're at all interested in the makeup of the universe, this is the book for you. The author has a preternatural ability to make complicated things comprehensible -- a wonderful facility for analogy. His writing style alone -- witty, conversational, felicitous -- is worth the price of admission. Two small (trivial) gripes: The apple pie device is a bit precious and can get tiresome, and, relatedly, who in the world ever okayed that title? I fear a browser might be misled and miss out on a great experience.

Reviewer: Christopher Belisle
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Brilliant, witty, and enlightening
Review: Dr. Harry Cliff goes beyond his talks to delve deep into the history of discovery of particle physics. His comedic wit present in his lectures carries over to this book which brings readers along on his travels to experiments exploring the potential deepest truths in reality. I always love hearing from Harry Cliff, and this book is no exception.

Reviewer: julia Wasah
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Informative and to the point- super fun to read too!
Review: I would not change, delete or rephrase any part of this book. Full of great details and engaging stories about significant scientific discoveries- I absolutely enjoyed reading and learned so much about our universe and particle physics. Highly recommend it.

Reviewer: Miriam Gandelman
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: wonderful recipe of our universe!
Review: very well written and with a lot of research on the history of physics put into this wonderful recipe of our universe. highly recommend it

Reviewer: R.T.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great gift
Review: My high schooler loves it!

Reviewer: Ashlee Bree
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Enlightening and easily digestible
Review: If you've ever wondered what elements are responsible for forming the universe we live in, or which ingredients are required to create matter, preserve energy, enforce gravity, making life as we know it possible, then this book needs to make a speed of light descent into your hands. And I mean soon.What's inside is a story. A recipe. An accessible yet comprehensive history, really, where the author details how scientists have slowly uncovered the fundamental components of matter over the last couple of centuries and have traced their origins back billions of years, to the violent spectacle of The Big Bang and beyond.With a wooden spoon in hand, the author, Harry Cliff, swirls readers into a scientifically cooked and still cooking quest for understanding about the cosmos.Where does matter come from? Which parts of the atom are divisible? How many different kinds of forces are there? What are they?How did quantum fields come to be considered the building blocks of all matter? Does supersymmetry exist in nature? Where? How?Why are neutrinos called "ghostly" particles?What is the ultimate origin of everything? Are we closer to having the answer or will it continue to remain out of reach, impossible to explain?These are the kinds of questions Cliff ladles into readers' purview, straining them into easily digestible curdles of information which highlight both how far we've come in being able to find, know, and predict the building blocks of the universe and how much farther we still have to go.Step by step, ingredient after ingredient, he sprinkles in summaries of some of science's greatest discoveries from the atom to relativity to the Higgs boson. He stirs in explanations of complicated concepts like up and down quarks, cosmic microwave backgrounds, and quantum and Higgs fields, underlining their significance with relatable metaphor and analogy so the layperson can wrap their head around what they are.He also sifts through the major hurdles or roadblocks scientists still face in the road ahead. Like the idea that reductionism could be false. Like how there are no particles or quantum fields in the standard model that could be dark matter or energy. Like the fact that no one understands why the Higgs field settled at the perfect Goldilocks value that has made the existence of atoms possible. Like how, on their own, quantum mechanics and general relativity both fail the closer they approach the moment of The Big Bang.For someone who has only a perfunctory grasp of particle physics, chemistry, and cosmology, I came out of this book feeling full. I wasn't stuffed with so much technical knowledge I was intimidated by it. Rather, I felt satisfied to be enlightened with a more well-rounded understanding of what elements make the universe...the universe.An engaging, electron banging read all around!

Reviewer: Miriam Gandelman
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Very well written history of our universe and science in general. From the smallest pieces to the big stars. Fun and instructive. Loved to read it!

Reviewer: Jordan Rindler
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I started this book with a very shallow knowledge of particle physics, but a deep desire to learn. I recommend this book for anyone who has a strong interest in how our world works at the most fundamental level but lacks a background in advanced mathematics or physics.The most abstract mathematics that were mentioned were global and local symmetries coming from the group theory field of math, which admittedly was difficult to grasp but explained well enough to understand why it is significant without needing to learn the notation or methodology.This book is written in a humorous and very personable way, and the author includes many anecdotes from his own life as a particle physicist at CERN as well as interviews and quotes from other leading members of the field. This aspect separates the book from what could essentially be a physics manual and gives it personality while also offering the readers a glimpse behind the curtain and into the lives of the people who are pushing our understanding of the universe every day.10/10, this book will teach you about the past, present, and future of particle physics in a way that anyone with a high school education can understand, which is not an easy task.

Reviewer: Jeff Clark
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: For the enthusiastic but Amateur astrophysicist like me, this is an informative and easily written volume. Harry Hill makes an impelling read of a difficult subject if you like it, I can recommend his other volume ‘Space Oddities’ I have to go with the stars!! All five of em.JC

Reviewer: Marc B.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: You learn a lot! Historical and physical content.Last chapters - speculative as the author writes himself - a bit difficult to understand (sphaleron and such... as a reader you have to accept the statements of the author).Very glad someone else advised this book to me!If you want to take notes in the book, look for one with enough margin 🙂 , as my paperback version doesn't leave much space for my remarks I added. A good book always invites to write something in the margin... and this is a very good book.

Reviewer: D. Menashy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I actually listened to the audiobook, then bought the hardback. It's that good.A deep dive into what everrything is actually made of, made easy enough to understand (at least "in the moment"), and delivered ina deft, unfussy style. We are made to feel we're on the same journey as the author. And the actual recipe is clearly laid out right at the end.... A superb book (and listen).