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Timothy Ferris

Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

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Title	:	The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe[s] Report
Author	:	Timothy Ferris
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	July 6th 1998 by Simon Schuster (first published May 2nd 1997)
Categories	:	Science. Nonfiction. Physics. Astronomy

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From the prizewinning author who has been called "the greatest science writer in the world" comes this delightfully comprehensive and comprehensible report on how science today envisions the universe as a whole.
Timothy Ferris provides a clear, elegantly written overview of current research and a forecast of where cosmological theory is likely to go in the twenty-first century. He explores the questions that have occurred to even casual readers -- who are curious about nature on the largest scales: What does it mean to say that the universe is "expanding," or that space is "curved"? -- and sheds light on the possibility that our universe is only one among many universes, each with its own physical laws and prospects for the emergence of life.

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Original Title:	The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report
ISBN:	0684838613 (ISBN13: 9780684838618)
Edition Language:	English

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I listened to it at work, and it's amazingly thourough without being too lofty for a lowly art-major to understand. I recommend buying the book though, and I still might, that way I can mark what I want to research further.

I love Ferris' books. The first one I read was The Red Limit and I liked the way he managed to explain a lot of complicated stuff in a simple manner. But I have read many books on the topic with similar comments for various authors (like Briane Green). What makes Ferris different is his candid writing style, which makes the reader feel as if s/he were reading the transcript of a lecture rather than a book.Moreoever, in The Whole Shebang, Ferris skirts the ideas of philosophy and religion. A book

"Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass.""Why?""Because they are all the same electron!"***A rather orthodox buildup of astrophysics and cosmology up until we hit the fascinating topic of quantum nonlocality (this book uses the term weirdness) - the entanglement that allows subatomic particles thousands of light-years apart to instantaneously resolve into their proper quantum states with relations as if they could communicate. From this problem arises some

For those interested in the "big questions" of the universe, this is an excellent status on the answers so far. (Although it it now getting to be a bit old -- circa. 1997 -- it seems to have age well when I read it almost 14 years later.) Some of it, honestly, went right over my head, but I highly recommend the chapters on dark matter, cosmic evolution, the big bang and quantum physics. Ferris is a very clear and entertaining writer. If you're a curious person with just a general knowledge of

Just finished the book. I think I learned more from this book than from any that I can think of, in recent memory.Marvelous book. Mr Ferris' writing style makes what could be a very dry book into smooth and enjoyable reading. I was far behind in knowing what the current thinking in modern physics was, and I like to keep up, but had only picked up bits and pieces here and there from Quantum Mechanics and so forth. I do realize that the book was published in 1997, so it only caught me up to there.

This is a popular science book that puts forth what we know about cosmology at the time of the book's writing. I had two problems with reading The Whole Shebang, but neither were characteristics of the book itself. First of all, the book was written in 1995--that was twenty years ago, and a lot has happened in astronomy and physics since then. So, if I had read this book sooner, it would have been more useful. Or at least more timely. And second, my knowledge of physics--especially quantum

This book is less engaging than Ferris' "Coming of Age in the Milky Way." There's less of a story here and more of a status report on the state of the science lying at the frontiers of cosmology (as of 1997). If there is one underlying theme to this book it is that we live in a quantum universe, but we have evolved in a world that is best understood in terms of classical physics. This helps explain why the discussion of cosmology is so challenging for the general reader. We try our best to grasp