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Chargement... How to Love the Universe: A Scientist’s Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible Worldpar Stefan Klein
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) ryner | Feb 9, 2024 |  Poets are rightly afraid of a world that has lost its magic, but anyone who harbours that fear is confusing research into our world with an Easter egg hunt, in the course of which all the hiding places are eventually plundered. Genuine insight , however, throws up more questions than it can answer. In his book, How to Love the Universe, he looks at questions like why did roses develop their beautiful colour; why is the sky dark at night; how big is the universe; how many coincidences, accidents, and seeming impossibilities had to occur to produce us; and what is the likelihood of life on other planets, even perhaps people who are our exact doubles. He tells it all with enthusiasm and excitement and in language that we non-scientific types can easily understand - he even explains the odd behaviour of quarks by telling a detective story - and his clear passion for his subject is infectious. I dare anyone to read this book and not come away with a greater sense of the beauty, the mystery, and the magic of the universe and our very very small corner of it. Thanks to Netgalley and The Experiment for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review (  ) lostinalibrary | Aug 27, 2018 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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