This is an indispensable guide to physics that offers readers an overview of the most popular physics topics written in an accessible, irreverent, and engaging manner while still maintaining a tone of wry skepticism. Even the novice will be able to follow along, as the topics are addressed using plain English and (almost) no equations. Veterans of popular physics will also find their nagging questions addressed, like whether the universe can expand faster than light, and for that matter, what the universe is expanding into anyway.
Filled with fascinating information and insights, this book will both deepen and transform your understanding of the universe.
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"I wish I′d had Goldberg and Blomquist as my physics teachers. Strangelets that grow until they strangle the world! Instructions for building an awesome teleportation device, and then transforming it into a super–awesome time machine! Speculations on the odds against our own existence! [and even deeper speculations on being in two places at once!] I′m going to recommend this book to my students, who are science journalists and to any and all readers who want to have more fun in the universe."
Jonathan Weiner, Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism,and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Beak of the Finch
We don′t like to mince words. If you have your heart set on building a faster–than–light drive or a time machine out of a DeLorean, knock yourself out. If you want to know whether these things are even possible and you like anthropomorphized fundamental particles, read A User′s Guide to the Universe.
This plain–English, plain–hilarious handbook ushers you through all of the major discoveries of modern physics, from relativity to the Large Hadron Collider, without furrowing your brow even once. Put your mind at ease and jump into modern physics in a way you never imagined possible comfortably. Now is your chance to impress people at cocktail parties with your insights into the world of quantum weirdness, time and space, the expanding universe, and much, much more.
Who knows? You might even learn something.
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