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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 301 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.08 — 211,539 ratings — published 2017
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.21 — 485,733 ratings — published 1988
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.40 — 161,117 ratings — published 1980
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,538 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 — 103,124 ratings — published 1999
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
by (shelved 60 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,289 ratings — published 2020
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,109 ratings — published 1994
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.26 — 89,396 ratings — published 2018
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,867 ratings — published 2004
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,723 ratings — published 2001
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,939 ratings — published 2004
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,061 ratings — published 2004
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.94 — 31,032 ratings — published 2012
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,029 ratings — published 2010
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 33 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.18 — 28,679 ratings — published 2002
An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.27 — 505 ratings — published 2003
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.98 — 68,325 ratings — published 2014
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.18 — 18,611 ratings — published 1993
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.26 — 43,496 ratings — published 2005
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.22 — 428,633 ratings — published 2003
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.95 — 60,877 ratings — published 2010
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,372 ratings — published 1994
A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them is Wrong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,611 ratings — published 2022
Letters from an Astrophysicist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.06 — 8,978 ratings — published 2019
Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,370 ratings — published 2016
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,681 ratings — published 1994
The Science of Interstellar (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,020 ratings — published 2015
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,165 ratings — published 2018
Reality is Not What it Seems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.33 — 16,981 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 — 11,594 ratings — published 2008
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,041 ratings — published 2011
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,810 ratings — published 2008
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,047 ratings — published 2022
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,336 ratings — published 2020
White Holes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,839 ratings — published 2023
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,267 ratings — published 2018
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.13 — 39,747 ratings — published 2017
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,398 ratings — published 2016
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 — 8,249 ratings — published 2010
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,355 ratings — published 2022
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 — 3,835 ratings — published 2021
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,967 ratings — published 2012
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.30 — 17,909 ratings — published 1997
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,926 ratings — published 2004
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,214 ratings — published 2021
The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 14 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,274 ratings — published 2012
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,391 ratings — published 1977
The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,375 ratings — published 2015
Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,379 ratings — published 1999
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,620 ratings — published 1995
“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
“The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.”
― Only the Deplorable
― Only the Deplorable
