"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 besteselling author of How Not To Be Wrong
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
CHRISTOPHE GALFARD holds a PhD. in theoretical physics from Cambridge University. He is coauthor with Stephen Hawking and his daughter on their first YA book, George's Secret Key to the Universe. In the past few years, he has given talks, and written a live show, about our universe attended by more than 130,000 people, of all ages and educational backgrounds.
想象你正搭载着机器猫的时光机,与无数星辰擦身而过,渐渐湮灭的小天体如钻石般闪耀,倾诉着黑洞的存在。而两个黑洞撞击在了一起,就像在橡胶膜上高速运动的铁球压出痕迹,巨大的能量造成时空扭曲,也震荡到你身边。这不是科幻小说,作为时间旅行者,你有幸见证了时下最炙手可...
评分又在偶尔翻看这本书了,依旧那么有趣。下面写于2018年9月。 I’ve never learned how to say a proper goodbye to a once-in-a-lifetime journey (for the obvious reason that you simply don’t get a lot of practices?), a journey that started in such an unremarkable w...
评分 评分宇宙物理和量子物理集大成
评分行程的另一个起点缘于图书馆跟这本书的偶遇,至今仍是我觉得跟图书最美好的一次不期而遇。它陪我度过了好多难忘的夏日时光。我,这本书,整个宇宙,夏日的虫鸣。if there’s one book on the universe you’ve got to read in this lifetime, I can’t think of a better book to recommend.
评分Just beautiful
评分行程的另一个起点缘于图书馆跟这本书的偶遇,至今仍是我觉得跟图书最美好的一次不期而遇。它陪我度过了好多难忘的夏日时光。我,这本书,整个宇宙,夏日的虫鸣。if there’s one book on the universe you’ve got to read in this lifetime, I can’t think of a better book to recommend.
评分很好看的科普读物,每天读一章,每天都了解宇宙多一点
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