The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond

An international bestselling, approachable guide to complex physics and space science that only requires a good imagination. Quantum physics, black holes, string theory, the Big Bang, dark matter, dark energy, parallel universes — Christophe Galfard employs the immediacy of simple, direct language to show us, not explain to us, the theories that underpin everything we know about our universe. To understand what happens to a dying star, we are asked to picture ourselves floating in space in front of it. To get acquainted with the quantum world, we are shrunk to the size of an atom and then taken on a journey.