In 140 pages,two masterly popularisers present 140 explanations ofthe biggest questions in physics - in the form of 10 or so tweets perpage. They set themselves the challenge of boiling down what isessential on each subject into sentences of 140 characters,and theresults are both entertaining and brilliantly informative. Not a word iswasted. The reader is not patronized and learns something on everypage. If only all science writing could be so precise and so economical.Only science writers of a very high calibre couldachieve such compression. Marcus Chown -'the finest cosmology writer ofour day'(Matt Ridley) - has known the Dutch writer Govert Schillingfor twenty years. Schilling pioneered this very swift form ofexplanation in a Dutch newspaper,and suggested to Chown that theycollaborate on bringing it to a wider audience. Tweeting the Universe is unlike any other science book.
Publisher: Faber & FaberISBN: 9780571295708Number of pages: 336Weight: 260 gDimensions: 198 x 126 x 21 mmEdition: Main
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