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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
This is a great book for the non-physicist space-enthusiasts out there! Dr. Katie Mack does a really good job of balancing scientific language with simplified analogies. She also manages to be quite humorous while maintaining an intellectual atmosphere throughout. This is not a book that seeks to teach you the science of the cosmos; instead, it collects the various developments on the cutting edge of physics to teach us that what we don't know far surpasses what we do know.
And that's the most exciting part.
5/5 for high accessibility, good simplified explanations of scientific theory, refreshing humor, and engaging writing.
And that's the most exciting part.
5/5 for high accessibility, good simplified explanations of scientific theory, refreshing humor, and engaging writing.
Lovely book about the end of the universe. I think it would be helpful to have watched the recent Nova specials about black holes to get some of the background that makes this book really enjoyable.
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I enjoyed this book and it was educational and well written, right up my street.
However, as someone who is only educated to A-Level physics and then with a personal interest in the area, I still found parts of the book difficult to understand or digest in large chunks. For that reason I've been hesitant to recommend this to friends that I know are less interested in the technicalities than I am
However, as someone who is only educated to A-Level physics and then with a personal interest in the area, I still found parts of the book difficult to understand or digest in large chunks. For that reason I've been hesitant to recommend this to friends that I know are less interested in the technicalities than I am
Really entertaining even for a real amateur like me, and engrossing enough that my physics-and-math-obsessed 18 year old tore through it in about 24 hours and kept ambushing me in different rooms, eyes alight, to tell me how great it was .
The ideas are big and grounded in cutting-edge research, and Mack’s style is everything you want from a brilliant science writer: clear but not condescending, with enough personality to suck you in, and a sense of humor that made me laugh a lot. In a book about astrophysics and the end of the universe!
The ideas are big and grounded in cutting-edge research, and Mack’s style is everything you want from a brilliant science writer: clear but not condescending, with enough personality to suck you in, and a sense of humor that made me laugh a lot. In a book about astrophysics and the end of the universe!
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I understood maybe 15% of the science here. Space is scary. Physics is scary. Cosmology is scary.