Black Hole Survival Guide
By: Janna Levin
4.00
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space--an authoritative an…
Want to Read $ 13.99"A bare black hole is pure empty spacetime—no atoms, light, strings, or particles of any kind, dark or bright. It’s empty space—or, in physics slang, the vacuum."-Janna Levin, Black Hole Survival Guide
"A bare black hole is pure empty spacetime—no atoms, light, strings, or particles of any kind, dark or bright. It’s empty space—or, in physics slang, the vacuum."-Janna Levin, Black Hole Survival Guide
"You send messages in vain to no one. But send them anyway. Your epiphanies are forever lost in the catastrophic singularity. But send them, please, your acts of defiance."-Janna Levin, Black Hole Survival Guide
"You send messages in vain to no one. But send them anyway. Your epiphanies are forever lost in the catastrophic singularity. But send them, please, your acts of defiance."-Janna Levin, Black Hole Survival Guide
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2. Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved
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3.50
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3. Reality is Not What it Seems
By: Carlo Rovelli
3.17
Format: 120 pages,
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4. The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy
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3.49
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5. The Science of Interstellar
By: Kip S. Thorne , Christopher Nolan
3.16
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6. A Brief History of Black Holes: And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong
By: Becky Smethurst
4.38
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
Black Holes are the universe’s strangest and most fascinating objects — Dr. Becky explains all, and… read more
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7. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
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8. The Order of Time
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more
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9. Black Hole Survival Guide
By: Janna Levin
4.00
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
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10. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
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3.95
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11. The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
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4.26
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"It also means that cosmology doesn’t really have a well-defined concept of “now."-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
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12. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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4.08
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13. To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
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4.02
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15. The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
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3.96
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4.06
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20. What
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3.90
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