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Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe

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The book starts with an extremely engaging “Brief History of Black Holes”, which got me instantly hooked. The topic is an intense and difficult one, even before you get to the cutting-edge stuff which the authors discuss in the final chapters.

Registered office address: Unit 34 Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EF. We say that nothing can come out of a black hole and yet, Stephen Hawking is famous for his Hawking radiation, which does come out of a black hole. I think Brian and Jeff struck a perfect balance between the technical and narrative explanations for a lay person interested in this subject. But even though this it's hard to read, I think we can see through these theories from a mathematical point of view. Richard Feynman, one of the smartest people who ever lived and did ground breaking work in the field said don't feel bad if you don't understand quantum mechanics - nobody does.As a science book, I'm sure this must be a remarkable and accurate piece, but as a popular science book, it must be considered something of a failure. This is a beautifully add masterfully written synopsis of the universe as a whole tying together, very complicated theories and ideologies into something readable, and more importantly, understandable.

The first few chapters explain the idea of spacetime interval, special relativity and spend a lot of time introducing Penrose diagrams. Maybe the next hundred pages will deliver the blindingly lucid insight I have been seeking all my life. But the things that I did understand were quite fascinating, although my brain slid off a few pages that looked like this and gave me a flashback to a college physics textbook that may have caused a few nightmares a couple of decades ago. When you say bits of information, I usually think of bits that are used in terms of computer science to describe a zero or a one that encodes information. As a side note, I do recommend reading this one in parallel or subsequent to reading Carrol’s above mentioned book which will give you a great basis in special and general relativity.

From the perspective of the book or the astronaut, you can fall across the horizon into the interior of the black hole. Viewed in this way, black holes are cosmic Rosetta Stones, allowing us to translate our observations into a new language that affords us a glimpse of the profoundest reason and most radiant beauty.

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