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Two great science writers set themselves the challenge to describe the biggest theories in science - each in just 140 characters.
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In 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.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Brilliant short intelligent bites,
By The Brother (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas (Kindle Edition)
Like listening to a very clever scientist giving you one-syllable explanations of the hard stuff in a pub. Not meant to be read through, but dipped into again and again.
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This review is from: Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas (Kindle Edition)
I admit I bought this on a whim, but...its great... I personally struggle with written physics because i'm a practical kinda guy and I often struggle to understand something unless its well justified. This book goes about explaining a question in a very interesting way - each question is answered in the form of a series of tweets (140 characters), each tweet (sentence) is precise, well considered and only those words which add meaning or help explain are included. You can tell there's been a lot of thought into how a question is answered. Such as; Why is the Sky Blue, Why is the Sun Hot? Why is Mars Red? What are stars? What are galaxies? How fast is the universe expanding? I really like this approach, very easy to read and interesting. Great approach, definitely recommended ..
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