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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLooking for recommendations for a book on recent advances in cosmology.
I was watching Neil deGrasse Tyson on Colbert and realized this layman's knowledge had gotten pretty stale. Web page recommendations are OK, but for a week I'll be on a boat where the link to the Internet is, I think, pigeons.
TY in advance,
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Looking for recommendations for a book on recent advances in cosmology. (Original Post)
Girard442
Jan 2018
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NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)1. Not sure.
Just a k&r as these sometimes sink. If the right person sees it you will have some great reading for the boat trip. Have fun.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)2. You might try *The Unknown Universe*, by Stuart Clark...
...to this very much lay reader, it was illuminating...
triron
(21,984 posts)3. I like Brian Greene, Lisa Randall, and Michio Kaku
You might just check out some of their books.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)4. "Orange is the New White."
kidding
Girard442
(6,065 posts)6. "Orange is the New Dreck."
"Dreck" is Yiddish and means pretty much what you think it does.
Taking notes...
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)7. cosmology ... so not beauty school textbooks?