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Fun project: I asked GPT to scan all photos of my bookcases during the last five years and make a list of books. There were about 2000. This is the physics list of about 200 books: 300 Years of Gravitation — Stephen W. Hawking and Werner Israel (editors) A Brief History of Time — Stephen W. Hawking A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down — Robert B. Laughlin A First Course in General Relativity — Bernard Schutz A Many-Colored Glass — Freeman Dyson A Most Incomprehensible Thing — Peter Collier A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations — Daniel Fleisch A Treatise on Thermodynamics — Max Planck Advanced Classical Electromagnetism — Robert M. Wald An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics — G. K. Batchelor An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics — Bradley W. Carroll and Dale A. Ostlie An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory — Michael E. Peskin and Daniel V. Schroeder An Old Man's Toy — A. Zee At Home in the Universe — John Archibald Wheeler Atomic Energy in Cosmic and Human Life — George Gamow Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge — Niels Bohr Atomic Spectra and Atomic Structure — Gerhard Herzberg Atoms, Radiation, and Radiation Protection — Bogard, Downing, Coleman, Eckerman, and Turner Big Bang — Simon Singh Birds and Frogs — Freeman Dyson Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy — Kip S. Thorne Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe — Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw Black Holes, White Dwarfs, and Neutron Stars — Stuart L. Shapiro; Saul A. Teukolsky Boltzmann's Atom — David Lindley Candid Science IV: Conversations with Famous Physicists — Magdolna Hargittai and István Hargittai Challenges in Plutonium Science, Volumes I-II — Los Alamos National Laboratory Classical Mechanics — Herbert Goldstein, Charles P. Poole Jr., and John L. Safko Concepts of Modern Physics — Arthur Beiser Cosmic Catastrophes — J. Craig Wheeler Cosmological Constants — Jeremy Bernstein and Gerald Feinberg (editors) Cosmology's Century — P. J. E. Peebles Covariant Physics — Moataz H. Emam Cycles of Time — Roger Penrose Dreams of a Final Theory — Steven Weinberg Dreams of Earth and Sky — Freeman Dyson Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell — A. Zee Einstein on Einstein — Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn Einstein’s Legacy — Julian Schwinger Einstein's Unfinished Revolution — Lee Smolin Electricity and Magnetism — Edward M. Purcell; David J. Morin Electrodynamics — V. D. Barger and M. G. Olsson Electromagnetism — David Tong Elementary Nuclear Theory — Hans A. Bethe and Philip Morrison Encounters with Einstein — Werner Heisenberg Exploring Black Holes — Edwin F. Taylor and John Archibald Wheeler Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries — Steven Weinberg Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field — Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe — Roger Penrose Faust in Copenhagen — Gino Segrè Fearful Symmetry — A. Zee Feynman’s Lost Lecture — David L. Goodstein and Judith R. Goodstein Fly by Night Physics — A. Zee Formation and Evolution of Black Holes in the Galaxy — Hans A. Bethe, Gerald E. Brown, and Chang-Hwan Lee Foundations of Modern Physics — Steven Weinberg From Eros to Gaia — Freeman Dyson From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves — Emilio Segrè From X-Rays to Quarks — Emilio Segrè Fundamentals of Physics I: Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics — R. Shankar Fundamentals of Physics II: Electromagnetism, Optics, and Quantum Mechanics — R. Shankar Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity — John Baez and Javier P. Muniain General Relativity — Robert M. Wald General Relativity for the Gifted Amateur — Tom Lancaster and Stephen J. Blundell General Relativity: The Essentials — Carlo Rovelli Geometrical Methods of Mathematical Physics — Bernard F. Schutz Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam — John Archibald Wheeler with Kenneth Ford Gravitation — Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, and John Archibald Wheeler Gravitation and Cosmology — Steven Weinberg Gravity and Spacetime — Hans C. Ohanian; Remo Ruffini Great Experiments in Physics — Morris H. Shamos Imagined Worlds — Freeman Dyson In Praise of Simple Physics — Paul J. Nahin Infinite in All Directions — Freeman Dyson Intermediate Quantum Mechanics — Hans A. Bethe and Roman Jackiw Introduction to Electrodynamics — David J. Griffiths Introduction to Nuclear and Particle Physics — A. Das; T. Ferbel Introduction to Quantum Mechanics — David J. Griffiths; Darrell F. Schroeter Introductory Nuclear Physics — Kenneth S. Krane Lake Views — Steven Weinberg Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos — Dennis Overbye Mechanics — L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz Modern Quantum Mechanics — J. J. Sakurai; Jim Napolitano My View of the World — Erwin Schrödinger National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe — Roy A. Gallant New Pathways in Science — Arthur S. Eddington Newton's Principia for the Common Reader — S. Chandrasekhar No-Nonsense Quantum Field Theory — Jakob Schwichtenberg Notes on Quantum Mechanics — Enrico Fermi Nuclear Radiation Physics — Ralph E. Lapp and Howard L. Andrews Pale Blue Dot — Carl Sagan Perspectives in Modern Physics — Robert E. Marshak (editor) Physics and Beyond — Werner Heisenberg Physics and Philosophy — Werner Heisenberg Physics for Students of Science and Engineering — David Halliday and Robert Resnick Physics: Foundations and Frontiers — George Gamow and John M. Cleveland Physics from Symmetry — Jakob Schwichtenberg Physics in the Twentieth Century — Victor F. Weisskopf Principles of Quantum Mechanics — R. Shankar Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis — Donald D. Clayton Proceedings of the Conference in Honour of Murray Gell-Mann's 80th Birthday — Harald Fritzsch and K. K. Phua (editors) Q Is for Quantum — John Gribbin QED and the Men Who Made It — Silvan S. Schweber Quanta and Fields — Sean Carroll Quantum Field Theory, as Simply as Possible — A. Zee Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell — A. Zee Quantum Generations — Helge Kragh Quantum Mechanics — Leonard I. Schiff Quantum Mechanics: Non-Relativistic Theory — L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz Quantum Mechanics of One- and Two-Electron Atoms — Hans A. Bethe and Edwin E. Salpeter Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles — Robert Eisberg and Robert Resnick Quantum Profiles — Jeremy Bernstein Quantum Theory — David Bohm Quantum Theory and Measurement — edited by John Archibald Wheeler and Wojciech H. Zurek Quarks, Leptons and the Big Bang — Jonathan Allday Readable Relativity — E. M. Durell Relativity — Albert Einstein Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology — Richard C. Tolman Rutherford and the Nature of the Atom — E. N. da C. Andrade Schrödinger’s Cat — John Gribbin Sears and Zemansky's University Physics — Hugh D. Young; Roger A. Freedman Seeing in the Dark — Timothy Ferris Selected Papers — Chen Ning Yang Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary — Freeman Dyson; edited by David Kaiser Selected Papers of Léon Rosenfeld — Robert S. Cohen and John J. Stachel (editors) Selected Works of Hans A. Bethe with Commentary — Hans A. Bethe Six Impossible Things — John Gribbin Solid State Physics — Neil W. Ashcroft and N. David Mermin Space, Time and Gravitation — Arthur S. Eddington Spacetime and Geometry — Sean M. Carroll Spacetime Physics — Edwin F. Taylor and John Archibald Wheeler Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum — Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman Statistical and Thermal Physics — Frederick Reif Statistical Physics — L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz Statistical Thermodynamics — Erwin Schrödinger Symmetry — Hermann Weyl The Accidental Universe — Alan Lightman The Big Picture — Sean Carroll The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, Vol. 1: Space, Time, and Motion — Sean Carroll The Birth and Death of the Sun — George Gamow The Character of Physical Law — Richard P. Feynman The Classical Theory of Fields — L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz The Collapsing Universe — Isaac Asimov The Cosmic Code — Heinz R. Pagels The Creation of the Universe — George Gamow The Dynamical Theory of Gases — James Jeans The Elegant Universe — Brian Greene The End of Time — Julian Barbour The Fabric of the Cosmos — Brian Greene The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volumes I-III — Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands The First Three Minutes — Steven Weinberg The Fly in the Cathedral — Brian Cathcart The Flying Trapeze: Three Crises for Physicists — J. Robert Oppenheimer The Formative Years of Relativity — Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn The Geometry of Spacetime — James J. Callahan The Hunt for Vulcan — Thomas Levenson The Internal Constitution of the Stars — Arthur S. Eddington The Kinetic Theory of Gases — James Jeans The Left Hand of the Electron — Isaac Asimov The Magic Furnace — Marcus Chown The Meaning of Quantum Theory — Jim Baggott The Nature of Space and Time — Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose The Nature of the Physical World — Arthur S. Eddington The New Quantum Universe — Tony Hey and Patrick Walters The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics — Heinrich Päs The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics — edited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Robert Fox The Oxford Solid State Basics — Steven H. Simon The Physical Review: The First Hundred Years: A Selection of Seminal Papers and Commentaries — H. Henry Stroke (editor) The Principle of Relativity — Albert Einstein, H. A. Lorentz, H. Minkowski, and H. Weyl The Principles of Quantum Mechanics — P. A. M. Dirac The Quantum Theory of Radiation — Walter Heitler The Quark and the Jaguar — Murray Gell-Mann The Road to Reality — Roger Penrose The Road to Relativity — Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn The Scientist as Rebel — Freeman Dyson The Second Creation — Robert P. Crease and Charles C. Mann The Second Law — Peter Atkins The Sourcebook on Atomic Energy — Samuel Glasstone The Story of Spin — Sin-Itiro Tomonaga The Theoretical Minimum: Classical Mechanics — Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky The Theoretical Minimum: Quantum Mechanics — Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman The Theory of Groups and Quantum Mechanics — Hermann Weyl The Theory of Relativity — Wolfgang Pauli The Theory of the Relativity of Motion — Richard C. Tolman The Trouble with Physics — Lee Smolin The Universe at Large — Hermann Bondi The Universe in a Box — Andrew Pontzen Theoretical Physics — Georg Joos Thermal Physics — Charles Kittel and Herbert Kroemer Thermodynamics — Enrico Fermi Thermodynamics and the Kinetic Theory of Gases — Wolfgang Pauli Third Thoughts — Steven Weinberg Thirty Years That Shook Physics — George Gamow Too Big for a Single Mind — Tobias Hürter Truth and Beauty — S. Chandrasekhar Uncertainty — David Lindley Understanding Physics: Light, Magnetism, and Electricity — Isaac Asimov Would-Be Worlds — John L. Casti

The bigger problem is that just like the nuclear race, it’s not one that either side can really “win”. So instead of pointlessly burning through cash, people and goodwill in an AI arms race and fear mongering, it will be much smarter to negotiate and reduce the common danger like we did with the Soviet Union.