EAN: 9780593186589

THE BIGGEST IDEAS IN THE UNIVERSE - SEAN CARROL...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMost appealing... technical accuracy and lightness of tone...
Impeccable.”—Wall Street JournalA porthole into another world.”—Scientific AmericanBrings
science dissemination to a new level.”—ScienceThe most trusted explainer of the most
mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most
valuable building blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll  with his genius for making complex
notions entertaining  presents in his uniquely lucid voice the fundamental ideas informing the
modern physics of reality. Physics offers deep insights into the workings of the universe but
those insights come in the form of equations that often look like gobbledygook. Sean Carroll
shows that they are really like meaningful poems that can help us fly over sierras to discover
a miraculous multidimensional landscape alive with radiant giants  warped space-time  and
bewilderingly powerful forces. High school calculus is itself a centuries-old marvel as worthy
of our gaze as the Mona Lisa. And it may come as a surprise the extent to which all our most
cutting-edge ideas about black holes are built on the math calculus enables. No one else could
so smoothly guide readers toward grasping the very equation Einstein used to describe his
theory of general relativity. In the tradition of the legendary Richard Feynman lectures
presented sixty years ago  this book is an inspiring  dazzling introduction to a way of seeing
that will resonate across cultural and generational boundaries for many years to come.

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