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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 312 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.08 — 218,660 ratings — published 2017
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.21 — 496,089 ratings — published 1988
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.40 — 164,689 ratings — published 1980
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,998 ratings — published 2006
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.09 — 104,555 ratings — published 1999
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
by (shelved 65 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.25 — 14,004 ratings — published 2020
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.25 — 92,107 ratings — published 2018
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.33 — 41,066 ratings — published 1994
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.21 — 23,124 ratings — published 2004
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,432 ratings — published 2001
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,713 ratings — published 2004
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,095 ratings — published 2004
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 35 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.18 — 29,411 ratings — published 2002
An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.27 — 512 ratings — published 2003
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.94 — 31,372 ratings — published 2012
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,865 ratings — published 2010
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.98 — 70,973 ratings — published 2014
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.18 — 18,837 ratings — published 1993
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,608 ratings — published 1994
A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them is Wrong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,800 ratings — published 2022
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.26 — 44,238 ratings — published 2005
Letters from an Astrophysicist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,246 ratings — published 2019
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.21 — 438,531 ratings — published 2003
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,637 ratings — published 2010
Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,490 ratings — published 2016
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,861 ratings — published 1994
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,268 ratings — published 2011
The Science of Interstellar (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,236 ratings — published 2015
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,279 ratings — published 2018
Reality is Not What it Seems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.32 — 17,658 ratings — published 2014
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.13 — 11,721 ratings — published 2008
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,318 ratings — published 2008
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,823 ratings — published 2022
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,587 ratings — published 2020
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,854 ratings — published 2022
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.12 — 42,104 ratings — published 2017
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,666 ratings — published 2016
White Holes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,401 ratings — published 2023
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,487 ratings — published 2018
The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,349 ratings — published 2010
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,932,309 ratings — published 2021
Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,018 ratings — published 2021
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,009 ratings — published 2012
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,564 ratings — published 1977
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.30 — 18,109 ratings — published 1997
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,395 ratings — published 2021
The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 14 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,320 ratings — published 2012
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.21 — 19,038 ratings — published 2004
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,748 ratings — published 1995
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.20 — 23,496 ratings — published 1916
“Science of Life, Class in Session
(Sonnet 2087-2088)
Nature doesn't kill anybody,
nor does it save anybody -
life and death are human constructs,
just like beauty and the grotesque -
nature is above all that,
not in an almighty, all-knowing
sort of way, but more of
an indifferent sort of way -
because in nature, nothing's born,
nothing dies, they just change shape,
and some of those shapes are sentient,
some intelligent, some neither -
and each identity gets restructured
as they go through the shape-shifting,
which includes restructure of sentience,
or non-sentience, as the case may be.
Same elements that make the nonsentient stars,
when they change shape into organic material,
such as humans, they produce sentience,
but as a human corpse decay into nature,
those elements get absorbed into the soil,
into trees, bugs, and all sorts of creatures,
thus they seep into a diverse range of
sentient and nonsentient materials -
and thus the cycle continues,
from the birth of the universe
till the end of the universe -
beyond that, I don't know - nobody does -
it doesn't matter what happens after,
what matters is, how you behave now.”
― Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
(Sonnet 2087-2088)
Nature doesn't kill anybody,
nor does it save anybody -
life and death are human constructs,
just like beauty and the grotesque -
nature is above all that,
not in an almighty, all-knowing
sort of way, but more of
an indifferent sort of way -
because in nature, nothing's born,
nothing dies, they just change shape,
and some of those shapes are sentient,
some intelligent, some neither -
and each identity gets restructured
as they go through the shape-shifting,
which includes restructure of sentience,
or non-sentience, as the case may be.
Same elements that make the nonsentient stars,
when they change shape into organic material,
such as humans, they produce sentience,
but as a human corpse decay into nature,
those elements get absorbed into the soil,
into trees, bugs, and all sorts of creatures,
thus they seep into a diverse range of
sentient and nonsentient materials -
and thus the cycle continues,
from the birth of the universe
till the end of the universe -
beyond that, I don't know - nobody does -
it doesn't matter what happens after,
what matters is, how you behave now.”
― Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“Einstein on time travel:
"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
―
"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
―
