by Sean Carroll
In space, there should be no material difference between left and right, forward and backward, up and down. However, for us there is a substantive difference between up and down because we live in the spatial vicinity of a massive object - the earth - which exerts a gravitational pull on us. And ...
FREE From Eternity to Here COMPATIBILITY TESTRead through the following dialogue between two people, A and B. Underline all the sentences which you can imagine saying yourself.____________________________________________A: What are you thinking?B: Have you ever wondered why the future is different f...
"Understand Entropy, you'll understand the universe"He states Dark Energy comes from the vacuum energy. He completely delves into the 2nd law of thermodynamics (entropy) and explains it historically and with superb analogies. The expansion of the universe is finally starting to make sense to me. I r...
Simply the best popular physics book I've ever read. Carroll is amazingly lucid, practical and totally excited about the subject while being conscious of the problems inherent in understanding something that is so fundamental to our existence that we take it for granted: time. What is time? Does it ...
Check out the dude's blog, Cosmic Variance, first
Unlike my usual practice since joining GoodReads, I very deliberately did not take notes while reading From Eternity to Here. I wanted to enjoy myself with an interesting topic (cosmology) and not be overly concerned with learning anything - the nonfiction analog of the fictional brain candy I read....
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