Showing posts with label cosmogony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cosmogony. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

The Zoomable Universe, by Caleb Scharf (2017, ISBN 978-0-374-71571-7)

Describes the Universe from the very large 10^27 (the whole universe) to the very small 10^-35 (the Planck scale.) It goes in steps of powers of 10 of meters. The humans are at between 10 meters and 1 meters.

Received for Christmas 2017.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011


One Two Three ... Infinity by George Gamow. Originally published in 1947, this copy was printed in 1967 and includes some revisions from about that time. I bought this book new in about 1968. I was in grade school at the time. I remember reading it and being fascinated by the big numbers (especially the descriptions of infinity) and the various descriptions of Relativity and Cosmogony. This particular edition of the book is probably a bit out of date, there is a more current Dover re-print, ISBN 0486256642. Still, I enjoyed re-reading it and would recommend it to anyone interested in learning about science. I was reminded about this book while reading The Pythagorean Theorem by Eli Maor. His book was so good that I bought a copy of his To Infinity and Beyond and in that book was a reference to this book. So I looked around in my boxes of books and found this book and decided to re-read it. Glad I did.