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A review by campbelltaral
Exoplanets: Diamond Worlds, Super Earths, Pulsar Planets, and the New Search for Life Beyond Our Solar System by James Trefil, Michael Summers
2.0
As pointed out by others already, this book is heavily opinionated and full of errors.
Not already pointed out is in chapter 4 (there are a lot of errors in this chapter, unfortunately) the authors get the NIST acronym wrong--it's the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the U.S. organization that works with the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) to ensure standardized measurements are used, a critical function in science. What the authors say instead at 4:11:51 (audiobook) is National Institute of Science and Technology which is a legitimate organization, it's just for something completely different and is located in India.
The blatant errors, along with a stupid analogy to explain knowing what something is without the words to define it (no, it's not commonly used throughout science and academia), makes this a hard sell. There are better books on the topic.
Not already pointed out is in chapter 4 (there are a lot of errors in this chapter, unfortunately) the authors get the NIST acronym wrong--it's the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the U.S. organization that works with the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) to ensure standardized measurements are used, a critical function in science. What the authors say instead at 4:11:51 (audiobook) is National Institute of Science and Technology which is a legitimate organization, it's just for something completely different and is located in India.
The blatant errors, along with a stupid analogy to explain knowing what something is without the words to define it (no, it's not commonly used throughout science and academia), makes this a hard sell. There are better books on the topic.