The average reader will spend 3 hours and 44 minutes reading this book at 250 WPM (words per minute).
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Review for people in a hurry
An enjoyable easy to absorb read.
If you may be interested in astrophysics it makes for a good overview before reading other books that go into more depth but require more time from the reader.
You may not be fluent but you will have a working knowledge of the basics..
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is an easily digestible summation of the universe, from the big bang to the present.
Neil deGrasse Tyson breaks down the universe into manageable chunks, from leptons to galaxies..
Tyson divides the book into 12 short chapters which I try to give a glimpse into in the summary below: Chapter 1: The Greatest Story Ever Told — Story of Big Bang told by a Grandma to a child Love the way he presents the story in chronological order..
The book outlines our current knowledge about the creation of the universe, supernovas, black holes, the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, invisible light, and how Earth and its materials came to be..
How the universe is created is the biggest unanswered question in the astrophysics.Here is the solution for this unanswered question.As per law of conservation of energy, energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Your universe is made up of mass and energy. This means universe does not exists. But universe exists..
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As far as any one ship is concerned (without further data), it’s the only ship on the ocean, yet they all share the same body of water
Spheres are indeed fertile theoretical tools that help us gain insight into all manner of astrophysical problems
But one should not be a sphere-zealot
If you’re too busy to absorb the cosmos via classes, textbooks, or documentaries, and you nonetheless seek a brief but meaningful introduction to the field, I offer you Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
The cluster should swiftly fly apart, leaving barely a trace of its beehive existence after just a few hundred million years had passed
But the cluster is more than ten billion years old, which is nearly as old as the universe itself
And so was born what remains the longest-standing unsolved mystery in astrophysics
