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Black Holes
- The Key to Understanding the Universe
- Narrated by: Professor Jeff Forshaw
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Summary
A Brief History of Time for the 21st Century
At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly, not even light can escape its grasp. Its secrets lie waiting to be discovered. It’s time to explore our universe’s most mysterious inhabitants:
Black Holes
At the heart of the Milky Way lies a supermassive black hole 4 million times more massive than our Sun. A place where space and time are so warped that light is trapped if it ventures within 12 million km. According to Einstein, inside lies the end of time. According to 21st-century physics, the reality may be far more bizarre.
Black holes lie where the most massive stars used to shine and at the edge of our current understanding. They are naturally occurring objects, the inevitable creations of gravity when too much matter collapses into not enough space. And yet, although the laws of nature predict them, they fail fully to describe them.
Black holes are places in space and time where the laws of gravity, quantum physics and thermodynamics collide. Originally thought to be so intellectually troubling that they simply could not exist, it is only in the past few years that we have begun to glimpse a new synthesis; a deep connection between gravity and quantum information theory that describes a holographic universe in which space and time emerge from a network of quantum bits, and wormholes span the void.
In this groundbreaking book, Professor Brian Cox and Professor Jeff Forshaw take you to the edge of our understanding of black holes; a scientific journey to the research frontier spanning a century of physics, from Einstein to Hawking and beyond, that ends with the startling conclusion that our world may operate like a giant quantum computer.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
Critic reviews
"They have blazed a clear trail into forbidding territory, from the mathematical structure of space-time all the way to atom bombs, astrophysics and the origin of mass." (The New Scientist)
"Inspirational." (Buzz Aldrin)
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- S. Martin
- 05-05-23
Challenging and inspiring
I don’t have a science background (my last O level physics lesson was in the mid 80s) so this is not an easy subject matter for me to get my head around. I had to listen to a few chapters a couple of times but I think this book has really helped my understanding. It’s a challenging listen but I would definitely recommend it. I am looking forward to re-listening to it, once I have dusted myself down.
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- Reg Ward
- 22-04-23
Doesn't work
This sounds a fascinating book but I'll have to get the kindle version and there are too many diagrams references for an audiobook.
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- Anthony
- 04-02-23
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Baffling Brilliant Beautiful! This book is a masterpiece of modern science and thinking a must for all science fans
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- Anonymous User
- 01-11-22
A lot to take in
I think I need to go through it again very enjoyable and informative
Thanks for the food for thought.
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- John
- 24-10-22
Only for physics and maths boffins
Hard going for anyone not with a physics (or high-powered maths) as a background. Probably profound but hard to be sure!
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- Clembo.
- 09-01-24
Simply put and excitingly explanationary.
If you start listening without a hard copy at hand, keep a pencil close by. It’s read in such a way that you could easily recreate the diagrams. They greatly enhance your understanding.
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- robotband
- 17-10-22
fascinating but relies heavily on diagrams
I think this may be one of those audiobooks that just doesn't quite work in the format. of course there is a PDF included with the audiobook, containing all the diagrams that are referenced in the body of the text... but I was hoping I could listen without constantly referring to the diagrams.
I think the physical copy of this book would work far, far better
with that out of the way, I should say that the content in this book is fascinating. I felt like I followed most of it until the quantum stuff at the end :-) but it really was very intriguing and felt very up-to-date, with the most recent papers being cited from 2019
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- @ZennyReadsAlot
- 09-10-22
Space is awesome including the non-existent partic
Black Holes by @ProfBrianCox & Jeff Forshaw. A wonderfully and explosively 💥 dynamic book 🔭. It will grab you by the tail and shake the unofficiated members of the scientific community awake. This is a beautiful deep-dive into the world of the ultra unknown📚 5/5🌟#bookreview
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- A. Williamson
- 20-02-23
A fascinating listen
I’ve been reading about the Big Bang, Relativity and Quantum Mechanics for many years. I’m only hampered by my lack of mathematical knowledge. This book, though mentally challenging, is incredibly well written and supported by diagrams that helped me to understand the underlying physics. I’ve been a fan of Brian Cox for many years and having Jeff Foreshaw reading the book made listening easy and very clear. I think this has been my most enjoyed audible book.
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- Upal
- 19-10-22
needed the supporting documentation to follow
needed the supporting documents to follow the explanations . without that it was difficult to keep up
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