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Mar 16, 2018DavidSpencer99 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I read this one because one of my oldest and most intellectual friends recommended it. I never did understand math, and it fascinates me that people like Newton, Einstein, and Hawking can not only think up this stuff in their heads but come up with ways to measure the phenomena and support their theories. If they keep digging, they might or might not find that God particle, but at least I now know a pulsar from a black hole. I even liked some of his nerdy jokes. I wasn’t bothered by the slight lack of coherence that one expects from a collection of essays, as opposed to a book-length treatment of the subject. Tyson fulfilled the promise in his title: an interesting glimpse for those of us who can’t or won’t spend the time it would take to really know workings for the universe.