The Infinite Monkey Cage – How to Build a Universe by Prof. Brian Cox (PDF)

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The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms.Professor Brian Cox and Robin Ince muse on multifaceted subjects involved in building a universe, with pearls of wisdom from leading scientists and comedians peppered throughout.Covering billions of concepts and conundrums, they tackle everything from the Big Bang to parallel universes, fierce creatures to extraterrestrial life, brain science to artificial intelligence. How to Build a Universe is an illuminating and inspirational celebration of science – sometimes silly, sometimes astounding and very occasionally facetious.

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⭐Good book. Love the Infinite Monkey Cage. It seems though that they just took the hardcover text and shrunk it to fit the smaller soft cover edition.

⭐A brilliant distillation of topics from the ‘Infinite Monkey Cage’ radio series, this may just be the most accessible science book Brian Cox has produced, and that is due in no small part to the back-and-forth-with Robin Ince and the quirky carton-like illustrations that pepper the text. It balances the serious with the humorous to compelling effect. “Life, Death and Strawberries” is both entertaining and enlightening about what constitutes being alive,and the section which dismantles homeopathy is a must-read. “We are often less comfortable with evidence-based scrutiny than with a pleasing anecdote that lends credence to our preconceived views on what we wish something to be.”It’s not all fun, though, and the chapter on cosmology makes for difficult reading because, let’s be honest, to properly understand the subject you’ll need better maths than most of have got. That’s not to say it’s not worth reading, and I’ll definitely be going back to it to prise out some more detail, but it’s definitely mind stretching stuff. It does, however, contain m favourite quotation from the book: “We are temporary assemblies of ten billion billion billion atoms, and in a century or less they will all be returned for recycling. But for the briefest of moments these atoms are able to contemplate themselves… Our purpose should be to extend their moment in the light as best we can”, which is almost Sagan-like in its beauty.The book ends with a cartoon landscape ‘Guide to the Year 2050’, of which the highlight is, “Social media has been replaced by a small and aggressive robot that perpetually screams abuse at you.” I don’t want to criticise, Brian and Robin, but I think we’re already there…

⭐This was incredibly difficult to read (physically). I would have LOVED to have read this!! But when I opened the book TO read, the text was SO SMALL. It’s been returned I’m afraid. Completely unread. I’m NOT blind mind you!! Just unbearably small. I can appreciate trying to keep it ‘neat and tidy’ or perhaps even ‘compartmentalised’ but this was a bit ridiculous. I MAY think of investing in the audio book…

⭐I love the Monkey Cage series and expected this to combine the science and humour of that programme. This book is surprisingly complex science though, specifically the first half which is mostly cosmology. The second half is funnier and links back more to the series. So don’t buy this book expecting a book version of the show, expect some serious science, some fairly random cartoons, and a bit of the Ince/Cox banter you hear on the radio.

⭐I’ve never heard the radio show, but I’ve seen them live. Hence interested in this book.The book starts with a fairly boring series of introductions (even Eric Idle’s intro was dull, except for one great joke at the end). This fills the first 10% of the book.It’s not until later that that the fascinating science and debate about dead strawberries, helium, size of the known universe and the big bang starts. This is when the book gets good. There is always so much to learn.

⭐A very decent attempt at capturing the science and humour of the Infinite Monkey Cage radio show into a physical book, one that is heavy on the particle physics. There’s a lot of science but also some lighter interludes all broken up with a lot of cartoons and photographs. If you like the radio show, you’ll like the book – so if the subject of living/dead strawberries is one you’re already concerned with, this book is for you.

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