- 395 pages
- English
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About this book
An international bestselling, approachable guide to complex physics and space science that only requires a good imagination.
"With its breezy conversational style, The Universe in Your Hand is well suited for the general reader with little to no prior knowledge of science. . . . The reader will come away . . . with a deeper understanding of how modern physics has brought us closer to an ultimate understanding of reality." — The New York Times Book Review
Quantum physics, black holes, string theory, the Big Bang, dark matter, dark energy, parallel universes: even if we are interested in these fundamental concepts of our world, their language is the language of math. Which means that despite our best intentions of finally grasping, say, Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, most of us are quickly brought up short by a snarl of nasty equations or an incomprehensible graph.
Christophe Galfard's mission in life is to spread modern scientific ideas to the general public in entertaining ways. Using his considerable skills as a brilliant theoretical physicist and successful young adult author, The Universe in Your Hand employs the immediacy of simple, direct language to show us, not explain to us, the theories that underpin everything we know about our universe. To understand what happens to a dying star, we are asked to picture ourselves floating in space in front of it. To get acquainted with the quantum world, we are shrunk to the size of an atom and then taken on a journey. Employing everyday similes and metaphors, addressing the reader directly, and writing stories rather than equations renders these astoundingly complex ideas in an immediate and visceral way.
Utterly captivating and entirely unique, The Universe in Your Hand will find its place among other classics in the field.
"If Ms. Frizzle were a physics student of Stephen Hawking, she might have written The Universe in Your Hand, a wild tour through the reaches of time and space, from the interior of a proton to the Big Bang to the rough suburbs of a black hole. It's friendly, excitable, erudite, and cosmic." —Jordan Ellenberg, New York Times–bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong
"With its breezy conversational style, The Universe in Your Hand is well suited for the general reader with little to no prior knowledge of science. . . . The reader will come away . . . with a deeper understanding of how modern physics has brought us closer to an ultimate understanding of reality." — The New York Times Book Review
Quantum physics, black holes, string theory, the Big Bang, dark matter, dark energy, parallel universes: even if we are interested in these fundamental concepts of our world, their language is the language of math. Which means that despite our best intentions of finally grasping, say, Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, most of us are quickly brought up short by a snarl of nasty equations or an incomprehensible graph.
Christophe Galfard's mission in life is to spread modern scientific ideas to the general public in entertaining ways. Using his considerable skills as a brilliant theoretical physicist and successful young adult author, The Universe in Your Hand employs the immediacy of simple, direct language to show us, not explain to us, the theories that underpin everything we know about our universe. To understand what happens to a dying star, we are asked to picture ourselves floating in space in front of it. To get acquainted with the quantum world, we are shrunk to the size of an atom and then taken on a journey. Employing everyday similes and metaphors, addressing the reader directly, and writing stories rather than equations renders these astoundingly complex ideas in an immediate and visceral way.
Utterly captivating and entirely unique, The Universe in Your Hand will find its place among other classics in the field.
"If Ms. Frizzle were a physics student of Stephen Hawking, she might have written The Universe in Your Hand, a wild tour through the reaches of time and space, from the interior of a proton to the Big Bang to the rough suburbs of a black hole. It's friendly, excitable, erudite, and cosmic." —Jordan Ellenberg, New York Times–bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Part One: The Cosmos
- Part Two: Making Sense of Outer Space
- Part Three: Fast
- Part Four: A Dive into the Quantum World
- Part Five: To the Origin of Space and Time
- Part Six: Unexpected Mysteries
- Part Seven: A Step Beyond What Is Known
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Sources
- Index
- About the Author
- Newsletter Sign-up
- Contents
- Copyright