Questions About Einstein's Monsters: The Life and Times of Black Holes

by Chris Impey (Goodreads Author)

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Could this work for high school students interested in science?

Randy Yes, but you'll not understand everything (which is more than fine), still you'll learn a lot, the stories about of many characters are very interesti…moreYes, but you'll not understand everything (which is more than fine), still you'll learn a lot, the stories about of many characters are very interesting, such as Joseph Weber. Weber was covered in another interesting book, Ripples in Spacetime by Govert Shilling. That book is less technical and well written.(less)

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In the book it says: "The mass and radius of the observable universe fit the same relationship defined by the mass and Schwarzschild radius of a black hole". This is not true, the observable universe's parameters are determined by how much the universe has expanded, the rate/decelleration/acceleration and the speed of light. The correspondence between the two is different by a factor ~3. "Same relationship"?

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