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Excellent read. The book begins slow and easy, but quickly builds speed like a rock tumbling down a mountain. Many of the beginning chapters were things I had learned previously from my high school and college physics classes, but following chapter 5 or 6, Carroll begins to push the envelope and really make the reader think.
Content-wise, he does a phenomenal job of summarizing and relating the history of theories of time and their real-world application. It gets dense towards the end, and very mathematical. As someone who is not very mathematically minded, it was tough and I had to reread some chapters. Carroll's passion, candor, and eccentric prose kept me through it. He really holds your hand though the more difficult concepts and the book culminates with some truly fascinating modern theories on time, the universe, and (seemingly) everything in between. This really helped me with writing my novel on time, and I'm very thankful to Carroll for laying out the science for me to make my book that much more believable.
My only note of criticism is to take it reeeaallly slow with some of the more advanced subjects. Students of physics will likely be fine, but there's some dense reading in store for science enthusiasts without degrees. I had a friend and colleague purchase the audiobook. He liked the reader, but it's a science book being read out loud. His suggestion was to have your finger close to the Rewind button ;)
A note to Sean: Keep up the excellent work. If you're reading this, I would happily purchase other books for you and support your academic endeavors. Great stuff and thank you for all your effort.
- Hardcover: 448 pages
- Publisher: Dutton Adult; 1st edition (January 7, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0525951334
- ISBN-13: 978-0525951339
- Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.4 x 9.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Average Customer Review: 161 customer reviews
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#554,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #142 in Physics of Time (Books)
- #622 in Cosmology (Books)
- #391 in Mathematical Physics (Books)
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