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This book is filled with trippy, speculative science and is quite fun.
I remember when I was 7, I was at the observatory with my dad, and while looking at an orrery I wondered, naturally, if that is kind of what the solar system looks like. It probably looks something like that, I thought, and it sits in the milky way, which I can see a picture that describes what it looks like, and the milky way sits in the local group and I can picture a group of galaxies that includes the milky way and the Andromeda galaxy, and that sits in the universe, what does the whole universe look like?
My dad was kind of a prankster, and so, not actually knowing the answer (this was in like 1969, so really it was not well known at that point, though I recall several years later being able to find some astronomy books that contained the dots on the balloon demo of the expanding universe), he told me that Einstein says that the universe looks like a key. It took me a couple years to figure out that there is no way that could be true.
Anyway, if one wants to read something about the bleeding edge research as to what everything looks like, this is a good, non-technical book that presents many fun, mind expanding, scientific theories for one's consideration and amusement. Included: the quilted multiverse (universes beyond our cosmic horizon) the inflationary multiverse (little bubbles of collapsed regions of the hypothetical inflation field), the quantum multiverse (the cat lives in the universe next door), brane theory, the cyclic multiverse, and the ultimate,ate ensemble of all universes with a mathematics. No mention of Amber, The Courts of Chaos, or Tanelorn, however.
I remember when I was 7, I was at the observatory with my dad, and while looking at an orrery I wondered, naturally, if that is kind of what the solar system looks like. It probably looks something like that, I thought, and it sits in the milky way, which I can see a picture that describes what it looks like, and the milky way sits in the local group and I can picture a group of galaxies that includes the milky way and the Andromeda galaxy, and that sits in the universe, what does the whole universe look like?
My dad was kind of a prankster, and so, not actually knowing the answer (this was in like 1969, so really it was not well known at that point, though I recall several years later being able to find some astronomy books that contained the dots on the balloon demo of the expanding universe), he told me that Einstein says that the universe looks like a key. It took me a couple years to figure out that there is no way that could be true.
Anyway, if one wants to read something about the bleeding edge research as to what everything looks like, this is a good, non-technical book that presents many fun, mind expanding, scientific theories for one's consideration and amusement. Included: the quilted multiverse (universes beyond our cosmic horizon) the inflationary multiverse (little bubbles of collapsed regions of the hypothetical inflation field), the quantum multiverse (the cat lives in the universe next door), brane theory, the cyclic multiverse, and the ultimate,ate ensemble of all universes with a mathematics. No mention of Amber, The Courts of Chaos, or Tanelorn, however.