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How To Destroy The Universe: And 34 Other Really Interesting Uses Of Physics (2011)

by Paul Parsons(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1849164797 (ISBN13: 9781849164795)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Quercus Books

review 1: The scope of the book is so wide that inevitably its content is very shallow. The first chapters are somewhat clearer, without doubt because they treat with classical mechanics, but almost all the book is about “modern” physics: relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory, etc. and is there that the explanations become assertions that the reader must accept and believe. Really I don’t know how instructive are those chapters to a reader without a previous background in the basic concepts of physics. Nevertheless a less critic reader, a kid or somebody that understands the basic concepts can find a joy reading all the parts related to the most speculative and fringe theories of physics (e.g. Podkletnov’s antigravity experiments). In short: from my point of view thi... mores book tries to explain too much in such a little space, and fails.
review 2: This book is great for understanding physics clearer. What I love about this book is that each chapter starts off with an example about the topic. This helps me understand what might befall me in the chapter. This book was a little hard to read though, (Maybe Grade 8 and up) and many of the rules of physics, complex equations, and the vocabulary confused me. This book is an intellectual book and I enjoyed reading it. less

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