Kamchatka or bust: an unlikely quest

A rip-roaring adventure tale, featuring a mild-mannered theoretical physicist, who found himself leading an expedition to the mosquito-and-bear-infested wilderness of eastern Russia in search of tiny grains of rock from outer space. That's on offer in physicist Paul Steinhardt's book The S...

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Published in:Physics World
Main Author: Johnston, Hamish
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: IOP Publishing 2019
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/32/12/31
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-7058/32/12/31/pdf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-7058/32/12/31
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Summary:A rip-roaring adventure tale, featuring a mild-mannered theoretical physicist, who found himself leading an expedition to the mosquito-and-bear-infested wilderness of eastern Russia in search of tiny grains of rock from outer space. That's on offer in physicist Paul Steinhardt's book The Second Kind of Impossible: the Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter .