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The Quirks & Quarks Guide to Space: 42 Questions (and Answers) About Life, the Universe, and Everything
 
 

The Quirks & Quarks Guide to Space: 42 Questions (and Answers) About Life, the Universe, and Everything (Paperback)

by Jim Lebans (Author), Bob McDonald (Introduction)
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“The publisher’s marketing people should recognize this volume for what it is: a public service.”
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For everyone who’s curious about what’s new under (and over and around) the stars.

Douglas Adams famously pronounced in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that the answer to life, the universe, and everything was 42. Quirks & Quarks, whose approach to science owes almost as much to Adams as it does to Newton or Einstein or Hawking, have flipped that notion through a gap in the space-time continuum (or something like that) and come up with answers to the 42 essential questions about space.

Much about the universe is very hard for most of us to grasp, and if anyone can explain these mind-bending aspects of the heavens above, it’s the Quirks & Quarks producers, who have been bringing Canadians understandable science, with trademark humour, for more than thirty years. In their Guide to Space, they answer such pressing questions as Where does space begin? Why is most of the universe missing? Is there intelligent life in the universe? And the real puzzler: What came before the Big Bang? They also answer questions we wish we’d thought to ask, such as Can you surf a gravity wave? and Why is the universe’s temperature on my TV? There are answers as well to far more practical questions, like What happens when you fall into a black hole? and How will the universe end? The answers, which have been vetted by a team of astronomers, are witty, authoritative, in-depth, accurate, up-to-date astronomically, and, of course, quirky.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great and simple summary of what we know... so far, April 23 2008
By T. Smith (Toronto) - See all my reviews
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I saw this at the local bookshop, as I was waiting for someone. Carelessly breezing through it, I thought 'nothing new here", but couldn't stop reading his chapter on 'Migrating to the Stars' as I waited. His humour and knowledge is evident, and therefore bought it on the way out.

As mentioned, anyone who follows this sort of thing won't find anything new, but still find it a great 'dinner party summary' of what we know of the Universe and it's workings. For those that are uninitiated in such stuff, it's a great and simple introduction - that never talks down, and never complicates or bores. Chapters are short, tidy and succinct for those with poor attention spans (like me).

A truly fun and interesting book, apparently based on a radio show (?), but who cares? It was worth a place on the beside table for sure! Get it!

TMS
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