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How to Love the Universe

A Scientist's Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World

by Stefan Klein
Charles Constant
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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.

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    November 20, 2018

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      • ISBN: 9781977399984
      • File size: 114204 KB
      • Duration: 03:57:55

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 1, 2018
      Traversing subjects from the earliest moments of the universe to the possibility of life on other planets, physicist Klein (The Science of Happiness) energetically invites readers “to let yourself be enthralled by the reality in which we live.” The author breaks his work into 10 chapters suitable for reading straight through or dipping into at random. Consideration of the “visible world” introduces the Big Bang and cosmic expansion. From there, he invites readers to ponder a question along with the young Albert Einstein—“what would it be like to take a ride on a ray of light.” Klein has a knack for mixing complex topics with more mundane images that bring those ideas into sharp focus. A hypothetical robbery investigation, for example, introduces probability and quantum entanglement. Cosmic inflation and warped space, the measurement of time, and the search for dark energy are all examined in thoughtful, accessible language that brings ideas to vivid life. Klein’s latest work encourages readers to think, consider, and give in to scientific fascination.

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