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Title: Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand: Fifty Wonders that Reveal an Extraordinary UniverseAuthor: Marcus Chown
Published: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 256
Rating: 4/5
Summary:
In this book, Marcus Chown explains fifty wonders that reveal an extraordinary universe, including how time travel theoretically works, how the whole of the human race can fit into the volume of a sugar cube and why it wouldn't make a difference if our suns core was made of bananas.
Review:
This was a very fun book!
For someone like me who is interested in science but not particularly knowledgeable about it, these kinds of books are fantastic. I love learning bite-sized pieces of information about science and I often find that some of those bite-sized pieces often lead me to dive deeper into certain subjects, ones I probably would've never dared go near had I not had someone smarter than me explain it to me in very simple terms first, which is exactly what this does.
It's not the kind of book you necessarily breeze through though and I found that I spent quite a long time getting through this, not because it's slow, but because there is a lot of information in here. I also found myself reading a chapter and if I was really interesting in the topic, I'd look it up online to learn more, which was really fun. I got especially distracted by the time travel chapter, that was super interesting.
Overall, this was informative, entertaining and educational and I'd highly recommend it to basically everyone, even if you think you know nothing about science.
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