Books by Janna Levin
How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
by Janna Levin
***A new edition of How the Universe Got Its Spots by Americal theoretical cosmologist Janna Levin***
“There’s not another book out there like it. It is truly unique. I read it when I was a postdoc. I read a lot of popular science, but I read this book and thought, ‘this is an entirely different genre of science writing!’ It’s very personal. She interweaves stories about her science and her science research from a first-person perspective with stuff going on in her personal life— her troubles with her relationship or when she feels depressed or lonely. That’s all in the book. You understand more what it is like to be a human being doing science from this book than anything I’ve ever read. I still think it’s profound. I occasionally go back and reread a chapter of it, also just to be inspired as a writer.” Read more...
The Best Books on the Big Bang
Dan Hooper, Physicist
Interviews where books by Janna Levin were recommended
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The First Three Minutes
by Steven Weinberg -
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
by Sean M Carroll -
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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
by Janna Levin -
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A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking -
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Black Holes and Time Warps
by Kip S Thorne
The Best Books on the Big Bang, recommended by Dan Hooper
The Best Books on the Big Bang, recommended by Dan Hooper
Before Einstein, how the universe began was a question for theologians, not scientists. Over a century later, we know much more, but not enough to do more than guess at what happened at the moment of the Big Bang and immediately after. Astrophysicist Dan Hooper, author of At the Edge of Time—a book that explores dark energy, dark matter and other things we don’t yet understand—talks us through books about the Big Bang, and questions whether our entire understanding of the universe is about to be turned upside down.
