Astrophysics for People in a Hurry — Tyson
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2017 Executive Summary Neil deGrasse Tyson assembled this book from a series of essays written for Natural History magazine, and it reads that way, in the best sense. Each chapter is a self-contained sprint through a major concept: the Big Bang, dark matter, dark energy, the cosmic microwave background, the periodic table’s stellar origins. The whole thing takes about two hours to read. The thesis is modest and genuine: you do not need a physics degree to grasp the shape of the universe, and knowing that shape changes how you see everything else. Tyson is the most effective science communicator of his generation, and this small book is a fair demonstration of why. ...