B, Big, Big Bang, Big Bang Books...
Sky-High wrote:
Sam Wormley wrote in message ...
Rod Mollise wrote:
For me, I like _The Whole Shebang_ by Timothy
Ferris. Any others?
Hi Erik:
One I recommend to my students, and a real fave of mine, is another Ferris
book, _The Red Limit_.
Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
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Hear Hear... "The Red Limit" is an excellent book!
I have read both "The Red Limit" and "The Whole Shebang", but to my
mind Timothy Ferris's best book is "Coming of Age in the Milky Way". A
very rich and enjoyable history of Cosmology. One of those books that
at 495 pages; one wishes were twice as long.
Yes--"Coming of Age in the Milky Way" is better than "The Whole Shebang",
the latter getting a bit "muddy: in the last chapters.
I just picked up a copy of Brian Greene's "The Fabric of the Cosmos",
and after finishing the decidedly non-cosmological "Hollywood Animal"
by Joe Eszterhas, (a kick-ass take-no-prisoners bio), will jump right
into what looks like a good read and further educational experience in
modern cosmology.
-sh
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