What a Wonderful World: One Man’s Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff by Marcus Chown (PDF)

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With wit, colour and clarity, What A Wonderful World quickly and painlessly brings us up to speed on how the world of the 21st century works. From economics to physics and biology to philosophy, Marcus Chown explains the complex forces that shape our universe. Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? How does capitalism work – or not, as the case may be? Where do mountains come from? How do computers work? How did humans get to dominate the Earth? Why is there something rather than nothing?In What a Wonderful World, Marcus Chown, bestselling author of Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You and the Solar System app, uses his vast scientific knowledge and deep understanding of extremely complex processes to answer simple questions about the workings of our everyday lives. Lucid, witty and hugely entertaining, it explains the basics of our essential existence, stopping along the way to show us why the Atlantic is widening by a thumbs’ length each year, how money permits trade to time travel why the crucial advantage humans had over Neanderthals was sewing and why we are all living in a giant hologram.

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⭐A nice summary of our scientific knowledge for high school kids and young adults who are just beginning to learn about science. I don’t know if anybody has noticed this, but this book’s font gets so annoying with regard to numbers. I noticed it in the discussion of binary systems. Instead of 1’s and 0’s, I keep reading I’s and O’s (but in small font, like ı’s and o’s) Then I realized that its font is designed that way. Annoying.

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⭐I feel like many things I had never understood were explained to me, yet somehow I now know relatively less than I did as I was introduced to even more things I don’t understand…I’m hoping if I read this book again I will not know even less…and maybe someday will feel less in awe and overwhelmed by science. On a good note it makes earth seem small and trivial, and hence earthly problems both more solvable and less important.

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⭐Marcus Chown is a very able communicator with a wide knowledge range. Much of the subject matter can be sourced elsewhere but here the clear exposition and flowing text makes for an enjoyable and enlightening read in the mould of Carl Sagan. A book for the intellectually curious with open minds. Big stuff indeed.

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⭐As a layperson not having trained in the sciences I found Marcus Chown’s style to be enlightening, engaging, and most informative. If in my early years I had people like him as teachers who knows what heights I might have scaled. I am very much the richer from having read it.

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⭐This book has so many amazing facts to be discovered. A good introductory book to start off for those who want to know from how our body works to Einstein’s gravity, and many in between. Fun to read. It makes you feel as thought you are riding on a train of discovery journey, as you flip from page to page.

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⭐This is an engaging, fun-to-read tour through some of the challenging and fascinating concepts in modern physics. The enthusiasm of the author is wonderfully infectious, and some of his tips on other readings on these topics are also very useful.

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⭐An must read for every body.Mr. Trump switch of your Twitter account and learn to read and understand that the World is round.

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⭐I have always had a facinatuon with most things around us and particulary in nature. This book really kept my interest and is something you can just dip in and out of as suits. I found his explanations and subject matter facinating and they were extremely easy to understand.

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⭐Great explanations of some difficult subjects – I learnt a lot, and found myself so engaged in the treatment of the subjects I find hardest to understand (relativity and some of the cosmology) that sometimes I was fired to argue with a statement, only to find an excellent explanation a few paragraphs later. I know I’ll never really understand physics, but I never felt so close to doing so before! Other topics like evolution and cell biology felt satisfyingly accurate where I was on familiar ground, plus plenty of interesting stuff new to me. Thank you for an excellent book, I’m sure I will return to it again and again.

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⭐I have to say, this really is an unbelievable book! Yes, there were a couple of chapters which didn’t interest me quite as much, namely geology and computers so I kind of skimmed through them. However, that is by no means a reason to mark this book down because those chapters will undoubtedly be fascinating to somebody else.The final chapters regarding physics and the cosmos were just incredible and I am sure I will dip out of these again and again in the future. I have read books on these topics in the past, but nothing has educated me as well as these chapters written by Marcus Chown. He has an incredible way of describing very complicated topics in such a simple and easy to understand way.The book is literally crammed with facts which will blow you away! A must have book for your book shelf or Kindle.

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⭐Marcus Chown is very good at explaining difficult ideas in a way that is accessible to any intelligent non-expert. This book covers a very wide range of topics and Marcus has had to tap the brains of experts in many different disciplines. As a physicist he can speak knowledgeably on those subjects but in other disciplines he has had to rely on current orthodoxies that may soon be overturned. For example he does not cover satisfactorily in my mind the problem of the planet Venus which shows many anomalies in its behaviour – a rotation opposite all the other planets, a surface temperature hot enough to melt led, his statement that the high temperature is the result of greenhouse heating is not convincing, a much younger planet still in the process of radiating inner core heat might prove the real reason, the presence of gases in its atmosphere normally associated with comets rather than planets and a surface entirely different from a planet of its supposed age. My overall judgment is that it a very good summary of present knowledge but lacks a certain amount of forensic investigation of those ideas that seem ripe for more than another look.

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⭐SCIENCE. A tour through the real world and a repudiation of faith, belief without evidence and all the stupidity of religion. He tells you when he’s speculating and when you can trust what he is saying. He gives you the evidence and he can be trusted. You will NEVER be able to say this about your priest, pastor, rabbi or imam. If you read no other book, read this, it is a tour through the real world with the occasional fantastical aside to add fun and speculation.

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⭐Marcus Chown has a wonderful knack of being able to explain very complex ideas in simple language. This book is very readable, I found myself going back to read parts again so I could memorize his explanations and quotes. I was so impressed I bought a second copy as a Christmas present for my son.

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