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Anonymous Sat May 15 22:42:03 2010 No.674736 [Reply] [Original]

Hi /lit/,

What's a great book about the universe/space and time/astrophysics/astronomy/quantum physics and stuff like that?

I've always been fascinated by this kind of stuff and I need something to read on the train. Any suggestions for a recent book on the above subjects?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 15 22:57:03 2010 No.674811 bumpers

>>	Anonymous Sat May 15 22:58:03 2010 No.674812 You can't go wrong with these two books by Richard Feynman: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

>>	Tripacus !!WRA3ZSAOPED Sat May 15 23:02:03 2010 No.674833 Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy

>>	Anonymous Sat May 15 23:16:03 2010 No.674893 >>674812 Thanks >>674833 I was looking for, you know, non-fiction...

>>	Four-Eyes !R6CTnpYVRs Sat May 15 23:24:03 2010 No.674915 If you're looking for non-fiction, I have nothing. in the way of fiction, however, Alastair Reynolds describes a lot of the technology in his universe. There's a lot of astrophysics and shit like that.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 15 23:27:03 2010 No.674923 Cosmos by Carl Sagan A Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell by Steven Hawking

>>	Anonymous Sat May 15 23:30:03 2010 No.674935 >>>/sci/948020

Anonymous Sat May 15 23:32:03 2010 No.674948

The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Kapra is a fascinating read, explains a lot about both eastern philosophy/religion and quantum physics while linking the two together. Not exactly what you're looking for, but thought I'd suggest it.
Also, In Search of Schroedinger's Cat is good at putting a lot of physics into layperson's language.
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.
Faster Than The Speed of Light is fascinating and almost a non-fiction novel than a book, story of a theoretical physicist and his new pet hypothesis, plenty of physics info in there.
So that's 4 books just off the top of my head. It's a fascinating subject and my dad has a Master's in it so I could always ask him as well. There's a shitload of layperson books about String Theory as well but that's not a very... how to put it... empirically established? field of particle physics.

>>	Fiver !id5v238waU Sat May 15 23:34:03 2010 No.674953 The Quantum Ten. Talks mainly about The Manhatten Project and the scientists involved. >>674923 >The Universe in a Nutshell Dem illustrations...

>>	Anonymous Sat May 15 23:45:03 2010 No.674971 >>674923 Cosmos. Then drop acid. Then Cosmos again. Also the dvds arge fantastic. OH WAIT /lit/!

>>	Anonymous Sat May 15 23:48:03 2010 No.674975 >>674923 This. Definetly!

>>	Anonymous Sun May 16 09:15:03 2010 No.676105 >>674736 the elegant universe superstrings and other things

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