Welcome to the Universe

An Astrophysical Tour

By: Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott, Neil deGrasse Tyson

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all - from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel.

Describing the latest discoveries in astrophysics, the informative and entertaining narrative propels you from our home solar system to the outermost frontiers of space. How do stars live and die? Why did Pluto lose its planetary status? What are the prospects of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? How did the universe begin? Why is it expanding, and why is its expansion accelerating? Is our universe alone or part of an infinite multiverse? Answering these and many other questions, the authors open your eyes to the wonders of the cosmos, sharing their knowledge of how the universe works.

Breathtaking in scope, Welcome to the Universe is for those who hunger for insights into our evolving universe that only world-class astrophysicists can provide.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2016 Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

Annoying voice and audio math don't work

I love Tyson and Strauss, and don't know a lot about Gott, but was looking forward to this, as I had already read chapter one. The narrator apparently prides himself on different accents, but all I can hear in this is nasal Chicago, which I don't find at all appealing. I'm having a hard time paying attention to what he says. All the equations don't translate well to audio, either. I'm about 1/4 of the way in, and I might have to just buy the book and read it, instead of listening.

physics

Always liked physics and this made it a little easier to understand. I appreciated the explanation of Pluto's status change.

Fantastic Tour of the Cosmos

This is a very thorough book covering Astrophysics. Not quite a textbook, as it is much more interesting, but it does also contain several equations. This book challenged my preconceptions as well as making me wonder more about the geometry of higher dimensional space-time. If astronomy, physics, general relativity and other similar topics interest you, this will be a treat!

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Wonderful journey

This was not the story I was expecting, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Authors take you from subatomic particles to the largest known objects in the universe. I chose not to follow the math all that closely since I won’t be using it myself in this lifetime, but hearing about how many of the theories we are aware of, Black holes for instance, we’re first theorized mathematically and then discovered empirically.

So many things to learn

I have read scores of books on the physics of the universe ranging from the very large to the minuscule and yet have found something new and enlightening in every chapter of this book. The educational quality of the book is exceptionally high on account of the limitation of prior knowledge on the part of the reader, the authors assume. The methodology of building up to the grand conclusions from simple prior knowledge through the use of analogy and thought experiments proves very effective in conceptualization and visualization of the ideas shared. There are still several places where the reader may feel a little list and wanting a second reading but in the whole, they are sure to walk away with an appreciation for the enormity of the universe and how much we humans have learnt about it in spite of our limited means, in the short time that we have been studying it.

Fascinating but complicated

Fantastic book, several different astronomical and physics topics. The literature is complicated to follow sometimes so you may have to slow it down or we listen to parts again to truly understand the ideas. that being said, this piece really opened my mind to concepts that I thought only existed in sci-fi novels.

I love science!

Being able to learn from good professor is a blessing and here 3! From the trip through number to how Einstein developed his theories, this book is full of information! I’m in my 5th listen and I still learn each pass.

I Would Give it More Stars if I Could!

A wonderful listen, clear and informative! I would recommend this to anyone who wants an overview of the subject.

Greatest

This is the greatest book of all time. You will not be disappointed. Thank you.

a complete lesson about the cosmos

I've listened to this several times. learning from each author provides a great variety of lessons. there are many equations spoken which can be difficulty to follow.