The Cosmic Web: Mysterious Architecture of the Universe - J. Richard Gott III - 4 Stars

[Jason]

Whew! this book is amazing and difficult and exciting. Gott, who played a major role in understanding the architecture of the Universe, explains the history of our understanding of how the universe is designed and what it might look like in the future.

Some of this book was over my head. While Gott gives simple explanations of complex understandings, such as quantum tunneling, he also offers the mathematical in scientific proofs. How one discovery leads to another. How one theory is proved correct by observation while another is proved wrong. So, some parts of the book were quite difficult to fully grasp, overall Gott does a great job of explaining the complex understandings clearly.

Since Gott was right in the middle of discovering the "Cosmic Web", I enjoyed learning of Gott's personal simulations and theories, as well has how his High School science fair project helped lead to this discovery much later in life.

Gott also gives the best explanation of the "multiverse" theory that I have ever heard as well as why this theory has become one of the leading theories.