Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

· W. W. Norton & Company
4.7
899 reviews
Ebook
144
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Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold.

The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.

What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.

But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day.

While you wait for your morning coffee to brew, for the bus, the train, or a plane to arrive, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.

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4.7
899 reviews
Giovan Mathieu-Major (philozofer)
May 9, 2017
How is the book locked to a 5star status with no one reviewing it? Clearly propaganda! Neil Tyson and Bill Nye are clear pawns in this game pushed to us. Regular book, nothing more, oh and you jave to faithfully believe in the cosmos by the way. As we all know that space is clearly not facts...I'd love to speak with someone whi has see and experience black holes, not out of phantasizing manner and through hypothetical surrealist scenarios. Actually weak book!
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Kody Lyons
October 26, 2017
I like the book, mostly. I have read some of NdGT's other books, and I have listened to a good amount of his lectures and other things. I am just a little disappointed overall. The last chapter or so came off as patronizing, rather than inspiring. The most interesting portion of the book was a refrain about the minor genetic differences between humans and other earth life that NdGT makes constantly. I do believe it is beautiful and inspiring, but it also feels recycled. I still learned, but I just wanted to serve as a warning to fans that you may be just a little disappointed.
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Keith Blackshear
January 5, 2020
Each one-third of this book left me with me different feelings. The first third was primarily a history of physics and astronomy, which consisted of infk that each of us got in our middle school science classes. The second third got into some very interesting concepts that I had been unaware of. The last third lost my I terest again as it went back into delivering a history lesson. Tyson didn't miss an opportunity to take shots at religion and politics (mostly religion) as a means of asserting the superiority of scientific inquiry. I thought that was a poor job by him. Science has done some amazing things to the benefit of all humanity. As a firm believer in science and also a firm believer in God, I was very disappointed in his decision to do this. Let the accomplishments of science stand on their own merits. To disparage others is to only diminish one's own accomplishments. I have no use for politics, but even when Tyson slighted politics, I found it off-putting. At the book's conclusion, Tyson's trademark arrogance is on full disay even as he tells us how science has shown humanity how insignificant it is in the grand scheme of things. When this book was good, it was very good. It just didn't happen enough. Even with the knowledge that this was essentially an "Astrophysics for Dummies" book, I thought that my extremely limited knowledge of the field would've made me a prime candidate for this book. Yet I found myself yearning for more than I was given.
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About the author

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Times best-selling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. He lives in New York City.

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