![]() With all the science books out there, why choose Mack’s book? Mack has something in her style that is unique. There are plenty of books on quantum mechanics, relativity, and cosmology for those interested in science but without the mathematical background. It’s much the same way one can operate, understand, and repair a gasoline engine without knowing all the engineering mathematics that had gone into its creation. Math provides the proof for the writing, but if the reader is willing to trust that the author did all the math, it’s all good. Not that I had anything against math, but I wanted to read for pleasure as well as to learn. It was the first of its kind for me - Hard science without the math. ![]() In the early 1980s, I read Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists by Fred Allan Wolf. ![]() ![]() Popular science books are a growing market. Her research investigates dark matter, vacuum decay, and the epoch of reionization. Mack is a theoretical cosmologist and Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University. The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack is a look at the end of the Universe as well as its history. ![]() ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe There is another theory which states that this has already happened. “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. ![]()
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