Tweeting The Universe Tiny Explanations Of Very Big Ideas
by Marcus ChownIn 140 pages, two masterly popularisers present 140 explanations of the biggest questions in physics - in the form of 10 or so tweets per page.
They set themselves the challenge of boiling down what is essential on each subject into sentences of 140 characters, and the results are both entertaining and brilliantly informative.
Not a word is wasted.
The reader is not patronized and learns something on every page.
If only all science writing could be so precise and so economical.
Only science writers of a very high calibre could achieve such compression.
Marcus Chown - 'the finest cosmology writer of our day' (Matt Ridley) - has known the Dutch writer Govert Schilling for twenty years.
Schilling pioneered this very swift form of explanation in a Dutch newspaper, and suggested to Chown that they collaborate on bringing it to a wider audience.
Tweeting the Universe is unlike any other science book.
- First published
- 2013
- Publishers
- Faber & Faber
- Language
- English
A really fascinating introduction to the big ideas of science. The book explains some obvious questions as well as more complex ideas, translating the concepts into very simple premises.
About Marcus Chown
Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is currently cosmology consultant of the weekly science magazine New Scientist. He is the author of the bestselling Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, The Never Ending Days of Being Dead and The Magic Furnace. He also wrote The Solar System, the bestselling app for iPad, which won the Future Book Award 2011. Marcus Chown has also written a work for children, Felicity Frobisher and the Three-Headed Aldebaran Dust Devil....
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