INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Most appealing... technical accuracy and lightness of tone...
Impeccable."--Wall Street Journal*
"A porthole into another world."--Scientific American
"Brings science dissemination to a new
level."--Science
The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back
the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building
blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll, with his genius for making
complex notions entertaining, presents in his uniquely lucid voice the
fundamental ideas informing the modern physics of reality.
Physics offers deep insights into the workings of the universe but those
insights come in the form of equations that often look like
gobbledygook. Sean Carroll shows that they are really like meaningful
poems that can help us fly over sierras to discover a miraculous
multidimensional landscape alive with radiant giants, warped space-time,
and bewilderingly powerful forces. High school calculus is itself a
centuries-old marvel as worthy of our gaze as the Mona Lisa. And it may
come as a surprise the extent to which all our most cutting-edge ideas
about black holes are built on the math calculus enables.
No one else could so smoothly guide readers toward grasping the very
equation Einstein used to describe his theory of general relativity. In
the tradition of the legendary Richard Feynman lectures presented sixty
years ago, this book is an inspiring, dazzling introduction to a way of
seeing that will resonate across cultural and generational boundaries
for many years to come.
