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S'està carregant… What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questionsde Paul Davies
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"We are living today in the golden age of cosmology. Over the past few decades, some of the biggest cosmic questions have been transformed from dreamy theorizing to hard won discovery. We now understand the history of our universe better than we understand the history of our own planet. And yet many answers are still tantalizingly out of reach. In What's Eating the Universe? award-winning astrophysicist and best-selling author Paul Davies takes us on a dazzling tour of the cosmic frontier, lucidly explaining what we now know, and exploring the intriguing - and sometimes terrifying possibilities that lie before us. What happened before the Big Bang? Will Earth will be annihilated by a vacuum bubble? And, can black holes remember what they ate? Laying bare the audacious research that today offers mind-bending solutions to these and other mysteries, Davies leads us up to the greatest outstanding enigmas of all: why the universe exists in the first place, why the laws of nature are as they are, and how a system of mindless, purposeless particles brought forth conscious, thinking beings, who are today poised to undergo a shift in cosmic understanding like never before"-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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While this is not my area of study I have taken a few courses on the topic as well as other reading and found this to be a great read whether covering something I already (sorta) knew or something completely new to me. It is scientific without being bogged down in the minutiae that is more important to researchers than lay people. Davies also connects the science to the world at large, the thoughts and ideas within which discoveries have been made.
I think one of the strong points is the use of relatively short chapters that each cover a specific point. While the book is certainly coherent as a whole work I think it could also serve very well for a reader who wants to approach it as a collection of essays. By that I mean a reader could read several chapters but not feel like they will lose the thread of the book if they don't get back to it for a few days. Or, as I often do with collections of essays or short stories, read a chapter when I have a limited amount of time and want something self contained.
I would recommend this to any reader interested in the topic. It would make a nice introduction for someone or, if they already have some background, a nice overview to put everything in perspective.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. (