Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe

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Not only do I not yet understand the universe, I don't understand the equations and diagrams in this book.

The book starts with an extremely engaging “Brief History of Black Holes”, which got me instantly hooked.The complexity of the topics discussed meant even Cox and Foreshaw were struggling to simplify the content to an universally understandable level. Os mistérios do universo - a maravilha do espaço infinito, inexplorado - e do espaço conhecido, que não deixa de fascinar quem se dedica a estudá-lo. If anything, I found the writing very engaging, and I think it could easily appeal to anyone who is willing to put in a little extra effort.

They are good at drawing connections between seemingly esoteric theory and everyday practicalities’ Independent on Sunday --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. This is why, the authors argue at the end of the book, "it is vital that we continue to support the most esoteric scientific endeavours", because no one could have predicted that we would find such links in studying black holes (pg. But the things that I did understand were quite fascinating, although my brain slid off a few pages that looked like this and gave me a flashback to a college physics textbook that may have caused a few nightmares a couple of decades ago. Originally thought to be so intellectually troubling that they simply could not exist, it is only in the past few years that we have begun to glimpse a new synthesis; a deep connection between gravity and quantum information theory that describes a holographic universe in which space and time emerge from a network of quantum bits, and wormholes span the void.The professor of particle physics from the University of Manchester and the Royal Society spoke with Bob McDonald about his new book, Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe.

We are now equipped to answer that question for black holes that do not spin, according to general relativity…For our purposes, we are going to recruit three more astronauts to join Red and Blue from the previous chapter in their exploration of the supermassive black hole in M87. This is one reason why it is vital that we continue to support the most esoteric scientific endeavours. For very big black holes, like the sort you find at the centres of galaxies, you could fall through it and you wouldn't notice a thing. Black Holes" by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw is a comprehensive and engaging read for anyone curious about the mysterious phenomenon of black holes. Black holes are places in space and time where the laws of gravity, quantum physics and thermodynamics collide.They are naturally occurring objects, the inevitable creations of gravity when too much matter collapses into not enough space. This is most likely a 5* book, but I’m only rating it on my own reading experience (including my obvious ignorance to space stuff). Whether on stage, television or in a podcast, Brian Cox is one of the most approachable science popularisers alive today. So no problem, except that according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, you can also ask the question, what does that look like from the perspective of the book or an astronaut falling in? So that means that the one on the inside is not coming out, but the upshot is the one on the outside that would have gone back and re-merged with its partner, essentially giving its energy back to the vacuum, can be made real and can escape into space.