The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.
What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.
But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day.
While you wait for your morning coffee to brew, for the bus, the train, or a plane to arrive, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.
##Lucid. Dark matter and dark energy keep our universe together and expanding respectively. The Big Bang created three simplest yet most abundant elements in universe: H, He and Li. Earth is constantly hit by meteors on its orbit and the situation was way worse in the past. Eventually some meteors in the Asteroid/Kuiper Belt will kill us all.
##今年看的最好的書,從世界觀上升到宇宙觀,然後雕琢我們的人生觀。
##今年看的最好的書,從世界觀上升到宇宙觀,然後雕琢我們的人生觀。
推薦,會再讀。 特彆是最後一章。
##原子身上的每一個質子、中子、電子,都是正反物質湮滅中十億分之一的幸存者 | 物質4%,暗物質26%,暗能量70% | 隨著空間越來越大,暗能量越來越多,宇宙膨脹的加速度也會越來越大。再過一萬億年,除瞭銀河係以外,天空中將再也看不到其他的星星 | 多一種視角,多一種自由度
##月初聽的,後麵用來做瞭一點聽寫。我也不知道為嘛讀瞭這麼多其實很簡單的科普,大概是每次都會發現一點新鮮玩意兒。比如說貴州的FAST是世界上最棒最大的radio telescope啦,如果有外星人打電話一定是中國人先收到(?)。(1)我一直知道quark來自於芬尼根守靈夜,但不知道一開始科學傢以為quark隻有3種,所以纔用瞭那句“Three quarks for Muster Mark!” (2)關於periodic table裏麵元素名稱的來源,跟astrophysics裏麵一些詞語的詞源是一樣的,而且發現的順序有些也是一樣的,天文和化學這就結閤在一起瞭。例如:“Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto ” 對應Uranium,neptunium, plutonium。當然他們
##還挺basic的aka.書如書名。最後一章凹的宏觀微觀聯係有點玄學走嚮哈哈。
##開始隻覺得是一本寫得很有趣 很清晰易讀的科普讀物 最後一章的人文情懷簡直是升華 Tyson太讓人感動瞭。 早上讀到的時候正好在Tree Organics咖啡廳 外麵下雨 背景音樂是blow'in in the wind… 人類身體的組成成分和宇宙大部分的東西一樣 都是碳氫氧組成 一點不特彆 可這不說明我們和其他東西聯係緊密嗎 我們都來源於大爆炸後的星塵啊;可是即便基因差距甚小 人類卻成為地球上最聰明的生物 豈不太奇妙;另外 從宇宙整體來看 人類太渺小太脆弱 可正因為如此 我們纔更應該有能促進人類社會發展的宏大的 成熟的宇宙觀 珍視人類間的差異 閤力嚮外探索更廣闊的世界 而非拘泥於資源的爭奪(突然想起make the pie bigger
##文藝如我確實喜歡"We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out.”但我更喜歡“Einstein was such a badass”,然後說外星人如果聯係地球,中國是最先知道的好好笑。Audio book有驚喜,本人閱讀!