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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 304 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.08 — 213,008 ratings — published 2017
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.21 — 487,868 ratings — published 1988
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.40 — 161,824 ratings — published 1980
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.10 — 32,644 ratings — published 2006
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,460 ratings — published 1999
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
by (shelved 63 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,449 ratings — published 2020
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.33 — 40,346 ratings — published 1994
Brief Answers to the Big Questions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.25 — 89,937 ratings — published 2018
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.21 — 22,930 ratings — published 2004
The Universe in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.18 — 45,892 ratings — published 2001
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,978 ratings — published 2004
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.12 — 41,235 ratings — published 2004
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 34 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.18 — 28,849 ratings — published 2002
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.94 — 31,134 ratings — published 2012
The Grand Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.06 — 78,243 ratings — published 2010
An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.27 — 509 ratings — published 2003
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.98 — 68,836 ratings — published 2014
A Brief History of Black Holes: And Why Nearly Everything You Know About Them is Wrong (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,657 ratings — published 2022
Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.18 — 18,671 ratings — published 1993
A Briefer History of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.26 — 43,650 ratings — published 2005
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.22 — 430,644 ratings — published 2003
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,076 ratings — published 2010
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.15 — 24,428 ratings — published 1994
Letters from an Astrophysicist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,045 ratings — published 2019
Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,399 ratings — published 2016
Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.23 — 13,725 ratings — published 1994
The Science of Interstellar (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,066 ratings — published 2015
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.65 — 5,182 ratings — published 2018
Reality is Not What it Seems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.33 — 17,102 ratings — published 2014
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.13 — 11,621 ratings — published 2008
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,094 ratings — published 2011
Physics of the Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,930 ratings — published 2008
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,234 ratings — published 2022
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,395 ratings — published 2020
Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,428 ratings — published 2022
White Holes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,947 ratings — published 2023
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,312 ratings — published 2018
The Order of Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,227 ratings — published 2017
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,456 ratings — published 2016
The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,273 ratings — published 2010
Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,866 ratings — published 2021
Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,980 ratings — published 2012
Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.30 — 17,938 ratings — published 1997
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,956 ratings — published 2004
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,269 ratings — published 2021
The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 14 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,284 ratings — published 2012
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,428 ratings — published 1977
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,667,872 ratings — published 2021
The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,432 ratings — published 2015
Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as astrophysics)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,390 ratings — published 1999
“Science of Life, Class in Session
(Sonnet 2087-2088)
Nature doesn't kill anybody,
nor does it save anybody -
life and death are human constructs,
just like beauty and the grotesque -
nature is above all that,
not in an almighty, all-knowing
sort of way, but more of
an indifferent sort of way -
because in nature, nothing's born,
nothing dies, they just change shape,
and some of those shapes are sentient,
some intelligent, some neither -
and each identity gets restructured
as they go through the shape-shifting,
which includes restructure of sentience,
or non-sentience, as the case may be.
Same elements that make the nonsentient stars,
when they change shape into organic material,
such as humans, they produce sentience,
but as a human corpse decay into nature,
those elements get absorbed into the soil,
into trees, bugs, and all sorts of creatures,
thus they seep into a diverse range of
sentient and nonsentient materials -
and thus the cycle continues,
from the birth of the universe
till the end of the universe -
beyond that, I don't know - nobody does -
it doesn't matter what happens after,
what matters is, how you behave now.”
― Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
(Sonnet 2087-2088)
Nature doesn't kill anybody,
nor does it save anybody -
life and death are human constructs,
just like beauty and the grotesque -
nature is above all that,
not in an almighty, all-knowing
sort of way, but more of
an indifferent sort of way -
because in nature, nothing's born,
nothing dies, they just change shape,
and some of those shapes are sentient,
some intelligent, some neither -
and each identity gets restructured
as they go through the shape-shifting,
which includes restructure of sentience,
or non-sentience, as the case may be.
Same elements that make the nonsentient stars,
when they change shape into organic material,
such as humans, they produce sentience,
but as a human corpse decay into nature,
those elements get absorbed into the soil,
into trees, bugs, and all sorts of creatures,
thus they seep into a diverse range of
sentient and nonsentient materials -
and thus the cycle continues,
from the birth of the universe
till the end of the universe -
beyond that, I don't know - nobody does -
it doesn't matter what happens after,
what matters is, how you behave now.”
― Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ ٱلَّيْلَ وَٱلنَّهَارَ وَٱلشَّمْسَ وَٱلْقَمَرَ ۖ كُلٌّۭ فِى فَلَكٍۢ يَسْبَحُونَ
"It is He Who created the Night and the Day, and the Sun and the Moon: All (the celestial bodies) swim along, each in its own rounded course (elliptical path)."
- The Holy Quran (Sura Ambiyaa, Ch. 21, Verse 33)”
― Astrophysics & the Holy Quran
"It is He Who created the Night and the Day, and the Sun and the Moon: All (the celestial bodies) swim along, each in its own rounded course (elliptical path)."
- The Holy Quran (Sura Ambiyaa, Ch. 21, Verse 33)”
― Astrophysics & the Holy Quran
