The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond

By Christophe Galfard

"If Ms. Frizzle have been a physics scholar of Stephen Hawking, she may have written THE UNIVERSE on your HAND, a wild journey in the course of the reaches of time and house, from the inner of a proton to the large Bang to the tough suburbs of a black gap. it truly is pleasant, excitable, erudite, and cosmic."
―Jordan Ellenberg, New York Times besteselling writer of How to not Be Wrong

Quantum physics, black holes, string conception, the large Bang, darkish subject, darkish power, parallel universes: whether we're drawn to those primary recommendations of our international, their language is the language of math. this means that regardless of our greatest intentions of eventually greedy, say, Einstein's thought of common Relativity, such a lot people are fast stated brief through a snarl of nasty equations or an incomprehensible graph.

Christophe Galfard's project in lifestyles is to unfold smooth medical rules to most of the people in wonderful methods. utilizing his huge abilities as an excellent theoretical physicist and profitable younger grownup writer, The Universe on your Hand employs the immediacy of easy, direct language to teach us, now not clarify to us, the theories that underpin every little thing we all know approximately our universe. to appreciate what occurs to a loss of life famous person, we're requested to photograph ourselves floating in house in entrance of it. To get conversant in the quantum international, we're reduced in size to the dimensions of an atom after which taken on a trip. utilising daily similes and metaphors, addressing the reader at once, and writing tales instead of equations renders those astoundingly complicated rules in an instantaneous and visceral manner.

Utterly attractive and fully distinctive, The Universe on your Hand will locate its position between different classics within the field.