Boulders bigger than cars ride long distances in debris flows. Boulders grouped like fish eggs pour downhill in debris flows. This is a short book that will suck you right in. Forget the title. This is about a guy who invents something that the establishment, and one influential rival in particular, just can't stand and won't accept.
Decades go by before the inventor gets the prize promised by the monarch.
But right does triumph in the end. A clock that worked on ships. He solved the problem of establishing longitude at sea. Paddock One of my hobbies is reading books for the layman about quantum physics and related topics. This is one of the three or four best.