Books by Brian Cox
“This book, written by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw, is wonderful…By exploring the equation ‘energy equals mass times the speed of light squared’, this book helps you to understand why the universe is what it is. It walks you through how Einstein came up with the equation, and why the universe behaves the way it does. I have a PhD in astronomy, so the material was familiar to me, but Brian and Jeff do a brilliant job of walking the reader through Einstein’s equation. If you make just one assumption – that light travels at a certain speed, and you give that a number you call ‘c’ – then everything falls into place in the universe. You find that mass and energy are two sides of the same coin. One can be converted to the other. And the amount of energy you get out of a handful of matter for some reason depends on the speed of light. If you read this book – and I’ll admit some of it is a little tough – you will understand how the universe works.” Read more...
Books on the Wonders of The Universe
Philip Plait, Physicist
Interviews where books by Brian Cox were recommended
Books on the Wonders of The Universe, recommended by Philip Plait
Philip Plait urges us to remember that “science isn’t an encyclopedia of facts to memorise. It’s alive.” The astronomer and author of the acclaimed Bad Astronomy blog discusses books that can’t help but light the fire of interest in all things astronomical. He looks at how we can date the age of the universe, the danger of solar flares, and why Pluto is no longer classed as a planet.
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Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe
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Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, the Universe, and Us
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The Event Horizon as a Vanishing Point: a History of the First Image of a Black Hole Shadow from Observation
by Emilie Skulberg -
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Inuyasha
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Black Holes and Uncle Albert
by Russell Stannard
The best books on Black Holes, recommended by Lynn Gamwell
The best books on Black Holes, recommended by Lynn Gamwell
In the past five years, over 30 books have been published on black holes for a popular audience—testimony to our enduring fascination with these areas of spacetime from which nothing, not even light, can escape. Lynn Gamwell, author of Conjuring the Void—a beautiful book that looks at both scientific and artistic images of black holes—talks us through five of her favourites, including a PhD thesis that has not yet been published as a book.
