Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas - Couverture souple

Schilling, Govert; Chown, Marcus

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571295703 ISBN 13 : 9780571295708

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2013

Synopsis

In 140 pages, two masterly popularisers present 140 explanations of the biggest questions in physics - in the form of 10 or so tweets per page. They set themselves the challenge of boiling down what is essential on each subject into sentences of 140 characters, and the results are both entertaining and brilliantly informative. Not a word is wasted. The reader is not patronized and learns something on every page. If only all science writing could be so precise and so economical.

Only science writers of a very high calibre could achieve such compression. Marcus Chown - 'the finest cosmology writer of our day' (Matt Ridley) - has known the Dutch writer Govert Schilling for twenty years. Schilling pioneered this very swift form of explanation in a Dutch newspaper, and suggested to Chown that they collaborate on bringing it to a wider audience. Tweeting the Universe is unlike any other science book.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Marcus Chown is an award-winning science writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is now cosmology consultant for the New Scientist. His acclaimed books include What a Wonderful World, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, We Need to Talk about Kelvin and The Ascent of Gravity (Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2017). He is also the author of Solar System for iPad, which won The Bookseller 2011 Digital Innovation of the Year.

www.marcuschown.com
@marcuschown

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571295703
• ISBN 13: 9780571295708
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Faber & Faber; https://www.faber.co.uk/; ; The Bindery; London; EC1N 8HN; Royaume-Uni
• Personne responsable: non disponible