The second creation
The second creation by Robert P. Crease is a 1986 Science & Technology book written by TED speaker Charles C. Mann, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "How will we survive when the population hits 10 billion?" (2018), 3.1M views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 32 years before the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 1st of 2 books by Charles C. Mann on Books Worth Reading (1986–2018), by publication year.
- Edition: Rutgers University Press, 1986 · 484 pages
The paired TED talk
How will we survive when the population hits 10 billion? (2018), the TED talk by Charles C. Mann.
From the publisher
Now back in print, The Second Creation is the intimate story of the decades-long scientific quest for "unification," a theory that draws together all matter and energy, from the hottest supernovas to the whirring fragments of the atom.
Based on scores of in-depth interviews with such brilliant scientists as Max Planck, Erwin Schrodinger, Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, Sheldon Glashow, and Steven Weinberg, Robert Crease and Charles Mann vividly portray the tense, exciting world of investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. In telling the richly human story of the two generations of scientists who set out to find the "theory of everything," the authors recount a sweeping saga that moves from the early days of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr arguing in a Copenhagen park to the vast, mile-long atom smashers of today.
The Second Creation is a definitive group portrait of twentieth-century physics.