Synopses & Reviews
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Does the void exist? Are space and time just an illusion? Are our minds capable of conceiving space at all? And why are we even on earth? 21st-century physics changes our perspective of the world and ourselves. Stefan Klein relates this in his gripping and at the same time poetic book. Beginning with the blossom of a rose, he traces the beauty of the unknown, when examining the weather; he explains the unpredictability of the world, and by using a crime story, he helps us visualize the true form of space. With great literary feeling, Stefan Klein makes us marvel and takes us on a journey to our reality that is quite different from the way we perceive it.
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How to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored with the world around him. In ten short chapters of lyrical prose--each an ode to an awe-inspiring realm of the universe--Stefan Klein uses everyday objects as a springboard to meditate on the hidden beauty of science behind the visible world. Klein sees in a single rose the magical interdependence of all life; a greying beard leads him to ponder the irreversibility of time; a marble conjures the birth of the cosmos. As he contemplates the deepest mysteries--the nature of reality, dark matter and nothingness, humanity's place among the galaxies, and more--Klein encourages us to fall in love with the universe the way scientists do, with a grasp of the key concepts that bring to life the wonders of, really, everything.
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In the vein of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, a fascinating, eye-opening reconsideration of the marvels of space, time, physics, and more
How to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored of the world around him. In ten short chapters of lyrical prose--each one an ode to an awe-inspiring realm of the universe--Stefan Klein uses everyday objects as a springboard to meditate on the beauty of the underlying science.
Klein sees in a single rose the magical interdependence of all life; a greying beard leads him to ponder the irreversibility of time; a marble conjures the birth of the cosmos. As he contemplates the deepest mysteries--the nature of reality, dark matter, humanity's place among the galaxies, and more--Klein encourages us to fall in love with the universe the way scientists do: with a grasp of the key concepts that bring to life the wonders of, really, everything.
Synopsis
An eye-opening celebration of the marvels of space, time, the cosmos, and more
How to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored of the world around him. In ten short chapters of lyrical prose--each one an ode to a breathtaking realm of discovery--Stefan Klein uses everyday objects and events as a springboard to meditate on the beauty of the underlying science.
Klein sees in a single rose the sublime interdependence of all life; a day of stormy weather points to the world's unpredictability; a marble conjures the birth of the cosmos. As he contemplates the deepest mysteries--the nature of reality, dark matter, humanity's place among the galaxies, and more--Klein encourages us to fall in love with the universe the way scientists do: with a grasp of the key ideas and theories of twenty-first-century physics that bring to life the wonders of, really, everything.
You won't look at a rose--or at our world--the same way again.