I like to read about science, especially in astronomy. When I was young I loved gazing night skies, I've always been fascinated by what hidden in the skies. My first astronomy book is "Universe in a Nutshell" by Stephen Hawking. I really love that book since Hawking has his way to describe something simply ,and I learned many things from it, not only some theories of Hawking but also inspiration to be a good but simple theoretician.
Now I'm interesting in experiment to find dark matter in the universe and trying to find something to read about CERN's experiment. I'd love to read a review about CERN's experiment that written in an understandable for high school students way.
Astronomy was never one of my main interests, but I am interested in how physicists like Hawking can explain the universe we live all the way to the beginning almost.
ReplyDeleteHave you read any of Lawrence Krauss's books? He is also a physicist, and like Hawking, applies quantum mechanics to our understanding of the universe we inhabit. I read his latest book, A Universe from Nothing, a couple of months ago, and was enthralled. I couldn't put it down. He gives, he not only explains the science brilliantly and clearly, but he also relates the stunning recent explosion of knowledge to some ancient philosophical issues. Although philosophy and mathematics were my majors at university, I have to agree with Krauss that science is generally a much better route to knowledge than is philosophy. I still read philosophy all the time, but it's often at it's best when it stops being philosophy and becomes a science, as astronomy did, and then chemistry and then physics and then biology.
In his book, Krauss does discuss dark matter and the most recent research at CERN's LHC into things like the Higgs boson.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that it's very exciting.
I can't wait to find any of his book. Thank you very much for your kind suggestion.
DeleteLast month I had a chance to attend a public lecture by Prof. Eric Bergshoeff, whose publication Supermembranes and eleven dimensional supergravity was awarded for its important breakthroughs in astrophysics. It was an extremely impressive lecture presenting his alternative to string theory. I did agree with him that membrane , the two-dimensional object, is not enough to explain string theory.
You should find more about his works. They're all really interesting.