Get in Touch: With Your Universe

by Peter Bull

‘Humans are much closer in size to planet Earth than they are to an atom.’Do you know your bosons from your quarks? Your matter from your antimatter? Does the fact that the universe is just so big, and so cold, make your brain ache, or want to find out more?Broken down into short, sharp chapters that navigate the very smallest particles – one-tenth of a billionth of a metre across (1/10,000,000,000) – to the largest, most deadly of stars, GET IN WITH YOUR UNIVERSE will take you through the weirdness of spacetime, wormholes and dark energy, and the inevitable, but possibly not final, collapse of the universe as we think we know it.Unlike most books on the cosmos, it contains only a couple of mathematical equations – the most fascinating being the Drake equation, which is used to calculate the possibility of other life ‘out there’ – and instead dips into both the logical and the philosophical nature of how our human consciousness interprets the subject of our superb universe.Peter Bull MBE is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and has taught astronomy for thirty years, presenting to primary schools, undergraduates and beyond.

59 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 24, 2021

Reviews

[Gareth · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn't know what to expect from this book bit I was very pleasantly surprised! A relatively short book when compared to some of the popular science books out there but it contains a lot of information. It is written in a very concise manner and skirts over the information enough to give you an overview without going into too much depth to overwhelm. For example, he touches on what black holes are and briefly how they appear but not into things such as Hawkins radiation or how it affects spacetime in too much detail.

This is an excellent book if you're looking at an entrance into physics that govern our universe. Well written and researched by someone who knows his stuff, this is definitely worth a read.