How to Love the Universe, Stefan Klein
How to Love the Universe, Stefan Klein
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How to Love the Universe
A Scientist’s Odes to the Hidden Beauty Behind the Visible World

Author: Stefan Klein

Narrator: Charles Constant

Unabridged: 3 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/20/2018

Synopsis

An eye-opening celebration of the marvels of space, time, the cosmos, and more

How to Love the Universe is a new kind of science writing by an author truly enamored of the world around him. In ten short chapters of lyrical prose—each one an ode to a breathtaking realm of discovery—Stefan Klein uses everyday objects and events as a springboard to meditate on the beauty of the underlying science.

Klein sees in a single rose the sublime interdependence of all life; a day of stormy weather points to the world's unpredictability; a marble conjures the birth of the cosmos. As he contemplates the deepest mysteries—the nature of reality, dark matter, humanity's place among the galaxies, and more—Klein encourages us to fall in love with the universe the way scientists do: with a grasp of the key ideas and theories of twenty-first-century physics that bring to life the wonders of, really, everything.

You won't look at a rose—or at our world—the same way again.

About Stefan Klein

Stefan Klein studied physics and analytical philosophy, completing his doctorate in theoretical biophysics, before turning to writing to "inspire people with a reality that is more exciting than any thriller." His book The Science of Happiness is an international bestseller, followed by the highly acclaimed All by Chance, The Secret Pulse of Time, Leonardo's Legacy, We Are All Stardust, and Survival of the Nicest. Klein's work has won numerous national and international awards and has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He lives with his family in Berlin, where he is a visiting professor at Berlin University of the Arts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by R on April 18, 2019

Poetic and well written as promised but does not bring a noticeably fresh perspective on the beauty of physics for anyone familiar with other popular science books. The astounding conclusions derived from Einstein's work and quantum mechanics have already been illustrated in much better books and in......more

Goodreads review by Maxine on August 27, 2018

Poets often accuse science of taking the magic out of the world but physicist and writer Stefan Klein thinks they are wrong: Poets are rightly afraid of a world that has lost its magic, but anyone who harbours that fear is confusing research into our world with an Easter egg hunt, in the course of wh......more

Goodreads review by Maddi on March 29, 2019

Neat information about physics and the cosmos for a non-scientist. I wished for a bit more narrative and poetry but learned some things I found quite astounding. Could be summed up with a quote from the legendary Wizards of Waverly place: Everything is not what it seems. **three and a half stars**......more

Goodreads review by Chris on February 08, 2019

Poetic prose is as advertised, but the science is too elementary. The often-told histories of the major discoveries of Einstein, Newton, and others, are too well known to be interesting, and reveal nothing new. There are some seriously embarrassing math typos in the notes that cast shade on the work......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on August 14, 2023

I really love this book. It is an almost poetic rendering of the mysteries of the visible universe, the utterly unimaginable size and complexity and wonder of the cosmos and the life we live within it. Klein talks about quantum entanglement, gravitational force, entropy and the nature of time, the B......more

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