Building The Universe: (And the tools to understand it) - Softcover

Bagnall, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1799100111 ISBN 13: 9781799100119

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

Ever wondered what would happen if you fell in a black hole, or how rockets actually work? Astronomer and science educator Christopher Bagnall will take you on a journey from the beginning of time to the present day, and explain how we know what we know about the universe.Building The Universe tells a story, not just about astronomy, but about people. For every discovery we have made, there’s a story about the people that helped us make it. This book will help you to understand the big concepts of cosmology like the birth of the universe, the death of stars, and the discovery of alien life, but it will also teach you about the people and the tools that allow us to know these things. Hidden in amongst the science and the history is my story. You will get to know how I got to where I am. How I got an astrophysics degree, and a job as an astronomer, despite failing high school.Most of us struggle with science in school, and many people have told me how much they wish they were clever enough to understand it better. My goal is to show you that you don’t need to be Einstein to understand astrophysics. You won’t learn any of the mathematics in this book, but from dark matter to jet engines, this book will explain the concepts of astrophysics and space exploration in simple English. You won’t be a research scientist by the end of this book, but you will know a lot more than you did, and hopefully you will learn something about life along the way, too.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1799100111
• ISBN 13: 9781799100119
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 106