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What's Eating the Universe?
- Author
- Paul Davies
- Narrator
- Marston York
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 2 September 2021
- Run Time
- 4 hours 31 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery. It's as if something has taken a huge bite out of the universe, leaving a super-void. What could be the culprit? A super massive black hole? Another, bigger universe? Or an expanding vacuum bubble, destined to envelop and annihilate everything in existence?
Scientists now understand the history of our universe better than the history of our own planet, but they continue to uncover startling new riddles-the hole in the universe being just one. In this electrifying book, award-winning physicist Paul Davies walks us through the puzzles and paradoxes that have preoccupied cosmologists from ancient Greece to the present day. Laying bare the audacious research that has led us to mind-bending solutions, Davies reveals how we might begin to approach the greatest outstanding enigmas of all.
© Paul Davies 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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Brilliant. You won't find a clearer, more engaging guide to what we know (or would like to know) about the universe and how it is put together.
author of The Body: A Guide for Occupants
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Paul Davies gives us a thought-provoking, fascinating, and delightful journey through some of the big questions that have perplexed and tantalized scientists throughout history. These are the questions and paradoxes that have stumped and teased history's greatest minds. What happened before the beginning? What is the meaning of the universe? Are there other universes?
Michio Kaku
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Paul Davies brings his customary lucidity to a survey of some of the most fascinating and puzzling aspects of our universe, simultaneously educating us about its vertiginous wonders and giving us a real sense of science's questions as it confronts and explores them and wrestles with their mystery. It is an absorbing and stimulating read, one of the best of its kind.
author of The Frontiers of Knowledge
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Compelling ... Davies excels in succinctly addressing the cosmological conundrums that haven't received as much attention as dark matter, dark energy, what triggered the big bang and the fate of the universe
Forbes
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A whistle-stop tour of the biggest mysteries that cosmologists are investigating today ... a fun way of making sure you're all caught up on where cosmology is at today
Physics World
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What's Eating the Universe? is a veritable feast for curious minds. Davies, a polymath and lyrical writer, masterfully tackles all the big questions ranging from why this Universe to the meaning of life and the significance of the present moment-a whirlwind journey through ideas that have shaped our understanding of the cosmos and its constituents.
author of Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
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A great introduction for readers new to physics ...Lessons in cosmology and astrophysics abound in this enthusiastic primer
Publishers Weekly
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Understanding theoretical physics is a daunting task, but What's Eating the Universe?is here to guide readers through the field. Each chapter is short-less than 10 pages-but jargon-free and full of information ... Regardless of the reader's prior physics knowledge, the book provides an accessible introduction to cosmology
Physics Today
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What's Eating the Universe? is Paul Davies at his very best. He brings a lifetime of experience in explaining mysteries of space and time to offer thought-provoking essays on deep questions in bite-sized, easily digestible chunks. There is no better overview of the advances made by cosmologists in recent decades.
author of Six Impossible Things: The ‘Quanta of Solace’ and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World
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A delightful account of the cutting edge of modern cosmology. He is truly exceptional at explaining all of this in his inimitable style--let's say 'astropoetry'
Simon Mitton, University of Cambridge
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Details
- Author
- Paul Davies
- Narrator
- Marston York
- Duration
- 4 hours 31 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 September 2021
- ISBN
- 9780241529270
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Cosmology and the universe, Astrophysics, Popular science, Space science, Popular astronomy and space
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery. It's as if something has taken a huge bite out of the universe, leaving a super-void. What could be the culprit? A super massive black hole? Another, bigger universe? Or an expanding vacuum bubble, destined to envelop and annihilate everything in existence?Scientists now understand the history of our universe better than the history of our own planet, but they continue to uncover startling new riddles-the hole in the universe being just one. In this electrifying book, award-winning physicist Paul Davies walks us through the puzzles and paradoxes that have preoccupied cosmologists from ancient Greece to the present day. Laying bare the audacious research that has led us to mind-bending solutions, Davies reveals how we might begin to approach the greatest outstanding enigmas of all.© Paul Davies 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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