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  • Journeys at the Extremes of Science
  • By: New Scientist
  • Narrated by: David Thorpe
  • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (56 ratings)
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This Book Will Blow Your Mind

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Summary

What's the nature of reality? Does the universe ever end? What is time, and does it even exist? These are the biggest imagination-stretching, brain-staggering questions in the universe - and here are their fascinating answers.

From quantum weirdness to freaky cosmology (like white holes - which spew out matter instead of sucking it in), This Book Will Blow Your Mind takes you on an epic journey to the furthest extremes of science, to the things you never thought possible. This book will explain:

  • Why part of the universe is missing (and how scientists finally found it)
  • How time might also flow backwards
  • How human head transplants might be possible (in the very near future)
  • Whether the universe is a hologram
  • And why we are all zombies

Filled with counterintuitive stories and factoids you can't wait to share as well as lots of did-you-knows and plenty of how-did-we-ever-not-knows, this will blow your mind - and then put it back together again.

You don't need a spaceship to travel to the extremes of science. You just need this audiobook.

©2018 New Scientist (P)2018 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

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This book didn't blow my mind.

a collection of pseudoscientific articles on, mostly, fringe and questionable topics. read brief answers to the big questions by Stephen Hawking instead.

you'll be glad you did.

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Disappointingly poor

This is a random collection of rather odd New Scientist articles that will definitely not blow your mind. Not terribly well read - count the times the word causal is pronounced ‘casual’. The lack of a sustained theme makes for a very disjointed experience. The journalistic New Scientist style doesn’t work in audio - lots more editing would be required to make this an enjoyable read, but the content really doesn’t merit putting that effort in.

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Don’t waste your time, money or a credit.

This garbage spends a lot of time building itself up and boasting of its upcoming revelations. It could never live up to its windy bragging and it doesn’t at any point even come close. It won’t be cluttering my Audible account any longer. Binned. (Accidental 2star for story, couldn’t undo for some reason)

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Heavy going...

The summary is accurate, although reading the summary again after listening to the book, it had a whole new meaning. When I first read it I thought I was in for an easy listen.

The narration is fantastic and delivered in a pacey, upbeat style. A little quick a times, however I prefer that. I'm happy to skip back if I need to. If it was slow-paced and downbeat, I would have returned the book after the first chapter.

It is highly likely I listen to all or parts of this book again.

If you're prepared for a heavy going book you will probably give this book 5-stars.

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hit and miss, no flow

the book was poor at the begining bouncing around not getting into much detail. I didn't enjoy it, there were some interesting bits but it felt like a number of articles glued together rather than a well written book, there was no flow. would not read again. not the worst but there are much better similar books

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The book cuts out

The book cuts out after two
Hours and won’t play its very disappointing.
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Hmm...

This book will blow your mind, this mind will blow your book, this blow will book your mind. I have reached many highs in my career of 68 years and counting, still learning, thinking and understanding and this reading has confirmed my careering has been and still is, in perpetual motion, perpetually incomplete, perpetually uncertain, perpetually indeterminate. Eternal returnity prevails

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