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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
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The sheer amount of information in this book was challenging for me as someone with no background in the subject but I was hooked on the engaging and humourous writing style. Rather than a deep dive the author presents info on many different theories about the structure of our universe and how it will end. I feel like I learned a lot both about what we know and how we might go about finding out more.
An upbeat, humorous and slightly mind-blowing book about the many ways the universe could end! I had to read it slowly to absorb all the astrophysics terms - and I might need to read it again to truly grasp all the concepts presented - but all-in-all one of the best works of existentialism to put us in our place as mere specks of cosmic dust. I won’t ruin it, but most likely our demise will be quick and either fiery, freezing, or vacuum-y, so no worries.
“Someday, deep In the unknown wilderness of the distant future, the sun will expand, the earth will die, and the cosmos itself will come to an end. In the meantime, we have the entire universe to explore, pushing our creativity to its limits to find new ways of knowing our cosmic home.”
“Someday, deep In the unknown wilderness of the distant future, the sun will expand, the earth will die, and the cosmos itself will come to an end. In the meantime, we have the entire universe to explore, pushing our creativity to its limits to find new ways of knowing our cosmic home.”
One of the things I love about good nonfiction is that it can make me believe for a while that I'm genuinely interested in something new for a while, even if the feeling ends up only lasting a few weeks. This book did this well.
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personally i’m rooting for vacuum decay, i think that one sounds the most fun
It’s astonishing how much very-hard-to-understand stuff she fit in this book, and in a way that is probably as accessible cosmology, quantum mechanics and string theory is gonna get. It’s an impossibly fascinating subject to me but it was hard to truly grasp what she was talking about at certain points. Maybe I’m just dumb. It also definitely gave me at least one very vivid dream of going through a wormhole.
challenging
informative
medium-paced