Astrophysics for People in a Hurry in Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge

Sep 23, 2018 Dana Berglund rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audiobooks, books-for-grown-ups

I did it! I read most of this book twice, some of it three times, to work on really understanding it. I really enjoyed learning more, but I'm not a person with a background in hard sciences, so there was some deep digging into the recesses of my high school memory for this one. The chapters (there are only 12) nearly stood alone, so I could tackle them in easier to manage chunks. It was not surprising to learn that some of these chapters had been individual published articles, with some editing ...more

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Nov 12, 2017 Denise Cormaney rated it it was amazing

I’m giving it five stars, although if I’m being honest, a lot of it went over my head. NDT was kind not to call this “Astrophysics For Dummies”, but that’s what it was supposed to be; even so, much of this was written in a language I just don’t speak. But the parts that spoke to the majesty and mystery of the cosmos were brilliant, so I’m glad I read it.

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Oct 19, 2018 Kelley Hibberd rated it really liked it

Loved this quote at the end: ‘Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in the cosmos. With that perspective, our problems would shrink-or never arise at all-and we could celebrate our earthly differences while shunning the behavior of our predecessors who slaughtered one another because of them.’

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