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How to love the universe : a scientist's odes to the hidden beauty behind the visible world / Stefan Klein ; translated by Mike Mitchell.

by Klein, Stefan, 1965-

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The Experiment, 2018.

9781615194865 (hc.)

All und das Nichts. English

222 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Translation of: Das All und das Nichts.

Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references.

The poetry of reality -- A marble in the cosmos -- Riding on a ray of light -- The world spirit fails -- A crime story -- Is the world real? -- Whoever ordered that? -- How time passes -- Beyond the horizon -- Why we exist.

"How to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored of the world around him. In ten short chapters of lyrical prose—each one an ode to a breathtaking realm of discovery—Stefan Klein uses everyday objects and events as a springboard to meditate on the beauty of the underlying science. Klein sees in a single rose the sublime interdependence of all life; a day of stormy weather points to the world’s unpredictability; a marble conjures the birth of the cosmos. As he contemplates the deepest mysteries—the nature of reality, dark matter, humanity’s place among the galaxies, and more—Klein encourages us to fall in love with the universe the way scientists do: with a grasp of the key ideas and theories of twenty-first-century physics that bring to life the wonders of, really, everything. You won’t look at a rose—or at our world—the same way again."--From publisher.

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