Cosmic Numbers: The Numbers That Define Our Universe
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (784 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00ANY876W |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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George Poirier said Fun, Friendly and Highly Informative. This is the third book that I've read by this author and of the three, in my opinion, this is clearly the best. It's a popular science book that's great fun to read yet goes over some very profound science - in this case, mainly physics. The book has thirteen chapters, each one devoted to a particular universal constant, e.g., the gravitational constant, the speed of light, etc. The author go. Too much wrong Given the praise on the back cover from, among others, one of my favorite mathematics authors (Ian Stewart), I had hopes for this book which it failed to live up to. In fact I stopped reading about 100 pages in. Stopped to protect myself: After seeing how many errors he was making in basic physics, I was worried I'd pick up misinformation, too, on other subjects I know less about.Just to give. Physics from a non-physicist and it shows I'm with reviewer R. Holmes ('Too much wrong') on this book. I'm a retired EE engineer, but I know enough physics to know that Stein often doesn't know what he is talking about. He tells us often in the book that he doesn't understand physics, and then goes on to demonstrate it. Why didn't he have some of his physics colleagues review the manuscript to comb out the obvious errors?First, this
Stein casts his net widely, delivering an entertaining history of each, often wandering into areas of science only distantly related but no less worthwhile.”Booklist. Kirkus “Cheerful but not dumbed-down… Every educated reader should know what these numbers mean
Everyone knows about the speed of light and absolute zero, but numbers like Boltzmann’s constant and the Chandrasekhar limit are not as well known, and they do far more than one might imagine: They tell us how this world began and what the future holds. So powerful is the appeal of numbers that many people ascribe to them a mystical significance. In Cosmic Numbers, mathematics professor James D. Much more than a gee-whiz collection of facts and figures, Cosmic Numbers illuminates why particular numbers are so importantboth