![]() ![]() The book was not written as an excuse to make poetry but for showing us what we know about the cosmos and what we should expect for the next years. Referring to the Kepler second law (“Each planet sweeps out equal areas in equal times”), Ferris writes: “The second law revealed something even more astonishing, a Bach fugue in the sky.” He is always giving you those sparks of beauty. ![]() In fact, I finished the reading two weeks ago and some ideas are still with me. Given that it is not easy to write about Space, Time and Creation, given the math and the physics and the chemistry involved, the merit is so big that you think that –in the case of Ferris– that is not a virtue but a talent.Thus, the merit of the book is that give you not only information but a Weltanschauung (a world view) that you won’t forget. As long as you read the book you realize how much work there is behind the writing. This is the case, from my perspective, of “Coming of Age in the Milky Way.”Timothy Ferris is not a scientist but a journalist. ![]() Putting aside those books that defends one option (there is a god behind everything) or the other (there isn’t), you have the chance of reading a book with no side to defend. ![]() ⭐Cosmos is a battlefield for the conflict between science and religion. Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website: ![]()
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