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deadly_nightshade_ 's review for:
Black Hole Survival Guide
by Janna Levin
Let's not kid ourselves. She's basically a black hole apologist.
Her excuse is that you can get way closer to a black hole than a star like the sun before you perish*.
The title is fake news. She obviously doesn't care about all the black hole victims (past and future). Like a shark conservationist. These people focus not on the danger, but what the danger source might know, what it might tell us about the world or ourselves. Danger sources always have information, you see! Or maybe not. We're not sure. Not even Stephen Hawking knew.
Read if you want to know what Hawking radiation is. That stuff will blow your socks off. What time is the event horizon? Read to find out.
4 stars because the first 3/4 of the book really set the bar high for clarity, and that level wasn't maintained in the last 1/4 (when it came to holograms and firewalls). A little more elaboration in the last couple of chapters would have been perfect.
Black Hole sUN
Black Hole sUN
*if the black hole has the same mass as the sun
Her excuse is that you can get way closer to a black hole than a star like the sun before you perish*.
The title is fake news. She obviously doesn't care about all the black hole victims (past and future). Like a shark conservationist. These people focus not on the danger, but what the danger source might know, what it might tell us about the world or ourselves. Danger sources always have information, you see! Or maybe not. We're not sure. Not even Stephen Hawking knew.
Read if you want to know what Hawking radiation is. That stuff will blow your socks off. What time is the event horizon? Read to find out.
4 stars because the first 3/4 of the book really set the bar high for clarity, and that level wasn't maintained in the last 1/4 (when it came to holograms and firewalls). A little more elaboration in the last couple of chapters would have been perfect.
Black Hole sUN
Black Hole sUN
*if the black hole has the same mass as the sun