Talk:John Gribbin

message: is there anyone on this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.54.185.6 (talk) 21:50, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  hello? 

message: What does "definitive bluffer's guide" mean? What is a bluffer in this context? --DanielCD (talk) 22:15, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
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message: One of the most thorough websites on John Gribbin is the wiki-type site, jrank. It should not be cited in the article but it provides info and leads.
John (R.) Gribbin (1946-) Biography - Personal, Addresses, Career, Member, Honors Awards, Writings, Sidelights
Read more: John (R.) Gribbin (1946-) Biography - Personal, Addresses, Career, Member, Honors Awards, Writings, Sidelights - Review, York, Search, and Science - JRank Articles 
*http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1526/Gribbin-John-R-1946.html#ixzz1hVDQ96Ki
Of interest to our discussion of third party sources, jrank lists over 60 such sources for Gribbin. In my opinion, there is no longer an issue of the existence of third party sources. The remaining issue is to work these sources into the article's text and to replace sources too close to Gribbon. DonaldRichardSands (talk) 00:49, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Gribbin info at jrank 

message: The list of works on the Gribbin article is extremely long. This section is intended to begin the process of selecting those works which ought to be mentioned. Another goal is to categorize the topics he writes upon.
===Science===
* (1999) Almost Everyone's Guide to Science: The Universe, Life and Everything, Yale University Press. .
* (1999) Get a Grip on Physics
* (1999) The Little Book of Science
* (2003) Science: A History 1543-2001, Gardners Books. .
* (2003) The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors, Random House. .
* (2009) Flower Hunters. Oxford University Press. Mary Gribbin and John Gribbin. ISBN 13: 9780199561827 ISBN 10: 0199561826Paperback, 320 pages
* (2006) The Fellowship: The Story of a Revolution, Allen Lane.  (the story of the Royal Society).
===Children's Books on Science===
* (2003) Big Numbers: A Mind Expanding Trip to Infinity and Back (coauthor Mary Gribbin), Wizard  Books (children’s imprint of Icon Books) 2005 edition. .
* (2003) How far is up? : Measuring the Size of the Universe (coauthor Mary Gribbin), Icon Books 2005 edition. .
* (2008) Time Travel for Beginners (children's, with Mary Gribbin)
* (2000) Eyewitness: Time & Space, DK Children. .
===Predictions===
* (1974) The Jupiter Effect: The Planets As Triggers of Devastating Earthquakes (coauthor Stephen H. Plageman), Random House: ; revised edition published as The Jupiter Effect Reconsidered, Vintage Books (New York, NY), 1982, .
* (1983) Beyond the Jupiter Effect, Macdonald. .
===The Sun===
* (1980) The Death of the Sun (also as The Strangest Star: The Scientific Account of the Life and Death of the Sun)
* (1991) Blinded by the Light: The Secret Life of the Sun
===Quantum Physics===
* (1984) In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics And Reality, Bantam Books. .
* (1996) Schrödinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality, Back Bay Books. .
* (1998) Q Is for Quantum: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics, Free Press. .
* (2002) Quantum Physics
* (2007)  La physique quantique, Pearson Education, .
Just bought this book which doesn't seem to be listed: http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/john-gribbin/computing-with-quantum-cats-from-colossus-to-qubits-9780593071151.aspx  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.16.24.235 (talk) 02:40, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Works listed by topic 

message: * (1984) In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics And Reality, Bantam Books. .
* (1996) Schrödinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality, Back Bay Books. .
* (1998) Q Is for Quantum: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics, Free Press. .
* (2002) Quantum Physics
* (2007)  La physique quantique, Pearson Education, .
Just bought this book which doesn't seem to be listed: http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/john-gribbin/computing-with-quantum-cats-from-colossus-to-qubits-9780593071151.aspx  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.16.24.235 (talk) 02:40, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: '''Quantum Physics'''

message: This section is intended to present the various summaries about Gribbon given by book publishers or as intro to lectures, etc.
*Stardust
Yale University Press
John Gribbin, visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex, is the author of many bestselling books of science, including In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality, The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry and the Theory of Everything, Almost Everyone’s Guide to Science: The Universe, Life and Everything, and The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe, the last two published by Yale University Press. He is married to Mary Gribbin, also a science writer.http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300084191
*Fitzroy
John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin are visiting fellows at the University of Sussex. John Gribbin has long been interested in the weather and is a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. Mary Gribbin has a special interest in exploration and is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Together they have written many books on science topics.
http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300103618
Penguin Books
...He is married with two sons and lives in East Sussex. http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000013299,00.html
...Who or what has most inspired your work? Arthur C Clarke & Isaac Asimov http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000013299,00.html?sym=MIS
*on physics by naglaa walker
with texts by: sacha craddock and john gribbin
Selected as one of the ‘10 outstanding young photographers from around the world who look certain to shape the medium in years to come.’ Art Review, Faces of the Future, October 2004. 
'a new fusion of art and science.' Matthew Collings
Winner of a Jerwood Photography Award in 2003, Naglaa Walker has established herself as one of the most exciting young artists to emerge in recent years in the UK. Since 2000 her work has been seen in more than 25 exhibitions in the UK, Europe and the United States. Before taking an MA Fine Art Photography at the Royal College of Art, Naglaa Walker trained as a scientist, and worked briefly as a Physics researcher. She draws on this background, using diptyches which juxtapose blackboard images of chalked equations with carefully staged photographic images, enabling the viewer to make connections between the abstraction of physical laws and the reality of experience.
John Gribbin is the award-winning author of many popular science books and probably the most well known UK writer and broadcaster on the subject. He lucidly illustrates how science uses imagery from everyday life as metaphors to communicate complex ideas in an understandable way. Sacha Craddock, leading art critic, writer and curator, provides a context within which to consider and evaluate Walker’s work.
A special collector's edition is also available. Limited to 100 signed copies, presented in a luxury bound Buckram slip case and with a signed and numbered A4 print, the edition price is £100.00 plus shipping at cost. For further information phone +44 (0)161 442 9450.
http://www.dewilewispublishing.com/PHOTOGRAPHY/On%20Physics.html
*NB: such summaries are NEVER third-party, and are frequently promotional (and as such WP:QS). As such, they must be used very cautiously and sparingly. They exist right at the very bottom of the hierarchy of sources. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 04:14, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biographical Summaries 

message: I read the sub-section "Critical comments" and also read the cited book reviews.  The problem is that comments in the book reviews are presented in our article as general comments on all of Gribbin's writings.  Since the negative comments only applied to the book being reviewed, it is not appropriate to use them to generalize about all of his writings.  The other problem is that two of the three books reviewed were co-written, so there is a difficulty in knowing how much of the blame for the faults to assign to Gribbin himself.  Since I don't think we want to do a "Positive comments" and "Negative comments" section on each of his 100 works, I suppressed the comments that over-generalized.  Any comments are welcome.  --Kenatipo  speak! 02:00, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: If you don't think material accurately reflects the source then tag it or rewrite it. 'Suppressing' it is thoroughly unhelpful. Also the 'positive' section was just as vague. Given that (i) both sections are small & (ii) whoever wrote them decided to split one review into both of them, I have combined them into a single section, with WP:ATTRIBUTEPOV. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 05:46, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Good job, Hrafn!  (You're not completely worthless after all, are you?)  --Kenatipo  speak! 06:45, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reviews of Gribbin's writings 

message: I've removed the 'Other still to be categorized' section as blatantly gratuitous. It does however still require further trimming -- as this 'tail' is clearly 'wagging the dog'. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 10:06, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
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message: In Q is for Quantum (in the 1999 and 2002 editions and perhaps later editions also), John Gribbin makes some statements about sines and cosines. In the article on 'mixing angle', he says, "For an angle θ, the sum of the functions sineθ and Cosθ is always 1." In the article on 'superposition of states', he says, "...for any chosen angle, the sine and cosine are each less than 1, but add up to 1." The correct relation is \sin^2(\theta)+\cos^2(\theta)=1. (And for some angles sine θ is 1 and for some angles cosine θ is 1, not just less than 1.) To blunder like this in two different articles undermines confidence in the author's real understanding of the mathematics behind the physics he write about. Pliny (talk) 15:17, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
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