How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space in Science and Inquiry

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How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space

Janna Levin

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Feb 26, 2016 Charlene rated it liked it

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When I started this book, I really loved how it was a mashup of the author's personal life and the science she was studying. After a while, I felt almost carsick. Strange reaction, I know. I don't know how else to describe it. I wanted to learn about the science, so badly, and I also wanted to know about her personal life. Somehow, I kept getting a headache when the two were meshed. I am not sure why this happened. After all, I have loved biographies of various scientists-- e.g. Curie, Einstein, ...more

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Oct 15, 2009 Finley rated it it was amazing

This is officially one of my most favorite books ever. It's written my cosmologist-topologist Janna Levin, who apart from being a good scientist is also a good writer. In this book, she explains special relativity, general relativity, quantum mechanics and topology as it relates to her work and her life. It's written as a series of letters from 2000 and besides being a beautiful and poetic chronicle of exciting physics concepts, it also documents her life and the changes in it as she moves from ...more

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