Too often, I was left wondering who Cox and Forshaw believed they were talking to in the book – surely they must have noticed many of their readers had fallen behind? Einstein and Hawking plus others are no longer around to explain concepts and theoretical physics, but Brian Cox is and has the ability to hold an audience. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. A good portion of the book is a crash course in Einstein's theory of relativity (special and general). Cox has written and presented numerous TV series for the BBC, including the Wonders Trilogy, Forces of Nature, The Planets and The Universe.

We say that nothing can come out of a black hole and yet, Stephen Hawking is famous for his Hawking radiation, which does come out of a black hole. Not for nothing did Sir David Attenborough once proclaim: 'If I had a torch I would hand it to Brian Cox. However, the Cambridge-Manchester commute is killer, and I have somewhat spotty Physics marks from prior attempts. Prachtig boek dat beschrijft hoe de natuurkunde van zwarte gaten verweven is met de wiskunde van quantum computing. We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic.He is best known to the public as the presenter of a number of science programmes for the BBC, boosting the popularity of subjects such as astronomy; so is a science popularizer, and science communicator. Registered office address: Unit 34 Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EF. So, the black holes, as we say in the book, they're like Rosetta stones in the sense that they're forcing us to discover that there are different descriptions of our universe.

But even though this it's hard to read, I think we can see through these theories from a mathematical point of view.The authors are clearly very excited about black holes and did their best to be accessible, and it’s not their fault that when it comes to information of Mona Lisa level my brain gets stuck in an equivalent of a clumsy sidewalk chalk drawing by an overexcited toddler. With stunning illustrations and insightful analogies, the book takes readers on a journey through the universe, exploring the formation and behavior of black holes. A glowing stream of material from a star is disrupted as it was being devoured by a supermassive black hole surrounded by a ring of dust and illuminated by high-energy radiation. Renowned physicist Brian Cox has dedicated his career to presenting complicated scientific ideas in an engaging way, from his popular BBC podcast "The Infinite Monkey Cage," to his frequently sold-out speaking events, to his bestselling books written with fellow physicist Jeff Forshaw.

Anyway, the two particles would be entangled, and one of them escapes, while the other one remains inside the hole.

In short, I really liked this book, but wished it had more thorough explanations, and maybe a clearer differentiation of purely theoretical from “verified”, but that might be the noob in me talking. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. Rather than spacetime-as-a-quantum-computer-code pointing to a programmer, we might instead take the view that earth-bound computer scientists have discovered tricks that Nature has already exploited.

His work on black hole thermodynamics and the concept of Hawking radiation revolutionized our understanding of these cosmic entities. There is no detail on the derivation (of course, because this is not a textbook), so we need to trust what the author said. Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids. This results in a paradox of essentially creating two copies of the same object / person: one spaghettified, one vaporized. Some say it’s no problem, because they can never meet again, some say otherwise, but I’m not sure I understand exactly what they say lol.In this book "Blackholes,the key to understanding the Universe,” authors Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw provided a captivating and insightful exploration of this nature's mysterious creations - blackholes. If you're not a physicist (or not yet a physicist) and you want to understand what Einstein and relativity theory are all about, you would do well to read this book. It's noteworthy that the page immediately following this line provides not one or two, but four equations.