Alternative Theories of Everything

Hour 2: Who really has a claim on the study of the sciences? We’ll explore the non-credentialed, non-formal world of “outsider physicists” this hour with journalist Margaret Wertheim, who has spent 15 years studying this scientific subculture. She writes about it in her new book “Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything” (Walker & Company, 2011).


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