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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Mind bending stuff on the various theories for how our universe might end. Written by a brilliant, gifted person with a wry sense of humor. She takes us by the hand to understand broad theories of the cosmos and how they are developed.
Easily digestible-so long as you have an appetite for the end of everything.
informative
slow-paced
La verdad es que el tema del libro en sí es interesante y me gustó saber más sobre las formas en que el universo puede comportarse y acabar en un futuro muy lejano, pero sí se me hizo medio insufrible de leer, en partes era demasiado denso y eso que la autora lo mezcla con toques de humor. All in all, no fue el mejor libro ni tampoco el peor que pude haber leído.
Entretanto, seguiremos en la brecha, abriendo nuevos senderos por el bosque para ver qué encontramos ahí escondido. Algún día, en lo más profundo de la selva ignota del futuro lejano, el Sol se expandirá, la Tierra morirá y el cosmos mismo alcanzará su final. Mientras tanto, tenemos el universo entero para explorar, empujando nuestra creatividad hasta sus límites para hallar nuevas maneras de conocer nuestro hogar cósmico. Podemos aprender y crear cosas extraordinarias, y podemos compartirlas entre nosotros. Y mientras seamos seres pensantes, nunca dejaremos de preguntarnos: «¿Qué hay más allá?».
To be fair this book was just “not for me.” It wasn’t as accessible as I thought it was going to be, and I often found myself glazing over paragraphs where words I’m familiar with started to feel like gibberish. More of a review of myself than the book I guess.
adventurous
slow-paced
funny
informative
fast-paced
Great popular nonfiction. Mack is very good at distilling complex topics into broadly understandable descriptions or metaphors. I found myself constantly wanting her to go just a little further in her descriptions, but I guess that's kind of the point of a book like this - it serves as an introduction, and encourages you to explore further.
this is about all the ways the universe could end!!! but it's also about humanity!!!! I found this appropriately confusing. this was some extremely high level science and especially in the earlier chapters I found myself following (shout out to 3/4 physics!!!!!) and for the most part I got the general gist of what she was saying but if I'm being honest especially in the last few chapters I was just letting her rock and I gave up on trying to properly understand. I think she made this as accessible as possible and she used lots of helpful analogies but at some point my pea brain couldn't quite keep up. I think that it's my fault though as opposed to this book not being written well. I plan on rereading this in a few years and hopefully my mind will have expanded a bit in that time xx 4 stars
emotional
informative
inspiring
mysterious
medium-paced
Every so often, a book catches me by surprise, and knocks the wind out of me. I am so happy that this was one of those books. I have always, always been fascinated by astrophysics and contemplating our place in the universe, and this was like taking a delightful stroll down memory lane - if that lane were billions of years in the future, wandering past tableaus of all the horrifying and unsettling things that could end our universe as we know it.
I think constantly about the Carl Sagan quote, that "we are a way for the universe to know itself." It pleases me to know that the atoms that once made up my body, little specks of dust that may have once been one of my neurons firing as I devoured this book at 40,000 feet blasting the Interstellar soundtrack, will get to experience one of these endings. I hope it is spectacular.
"In fact, it's entirely possible that, as we sit here now, calmly drinking our tea, vacuum decay has already occurred. Maybe we're lucky and the bubble is beyond our cosmic horizon, swallowing up galaxies we would never have known. Or maybe it is, cosmically speaking, right next door, quietly approaching with relativistic stealth, destined to catch us unawares, between breaths."
challenging
informative
slow-paced
challenging
funny
informative
medium-paced