Astrophysics


Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
A Brief History of Time
Cosmos
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
The Universe in a Nutshell
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
The Grand Design
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics
Amelia, the Venutons and the Golden Cage by Evonne BlanchardAmelia, the Moochins and the Sapphire Palace by Evonne BlanchardCosmos by Carl SaganThe Right Stuff by Tom WolfeThe Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
A Space.com Reading List
23 books — 16 voters
Principles of Quantum Mechanics by Ramamurti ShankarMathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics by Vladimir I. ArnoldNaive Lie Theory by John StillwellQuantum Theory by A. PeresThe Beauty of Fractals by Heinz-Otto Peitgen
Top Springer Physics
26 books — 1 voter

Alien Oceans by Kevin Peter HandThe Future of Humanity by Michio KakuAstrobiology by David C. CatlingThe Contact Paradox by Keith CooperGoldilocks and the Water Bears by Louisa Preston
ASTROBIOLOGY POP SCIENCE
18 books — 2 voters
Introduction to Electrodynamics by David J. GriffithsThe Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. FeynmanIntroduction to Quantum Mechanics by David J. GriffithsClassical Mechanics by Charles P. Poole Jr.Relativity by Albert Einstein
Not Pop-Science - Physics
130 books — 32 voters

Hugh Ross
All the scientists were upstaged at least 2,500 years earlier by Job, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and other Bible authors. The Bible’s prophets and apostles stated explicitly and repeatedly the two most fundamental properties of the big bang, a transcendent cosmic beginning a finite time ago and a universe undergoing a general expansion.
Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God

Neil deGrasse Tyson
The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away, and at a time when Earth was teeming with simple, single-celled organisms. While the ripple moved through space in all directions, Earth would, after another 800 million years, evolve complex life, including flowers and dinosaurs and flying creatures, as well as a branch of vertebrates called mammals. Among the mammals, a sub-branch would evolve frontal lobes and ...more
Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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