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“A fluid, crystalline presentation of how scientists think… With this three-tiered structure of perception, detection, and theory, the Garfinkles systematically instill how confident lay readers can be in what they read in the popular-science format in general, working through astrophysics to illustrate their points.”
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THREE STEPS TO THE UNIVERSE
From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter

David Garfinkle and Richard Garfinkle

In October, New Scientist reported that large black holes, vestiges from a pre-Milky Way universe, could be floating undetected in our galaxy. If we find them, the magazine suggests, they could help us understand the violent birth of the Milky Way itself. But if the threat of rogue black holes has you a little worried, Three Steps to the Universe is here to bring this, and other recent discoveries involving cosmic phenomena, into clearer focus. Explaining how we know what we know about everything in space—from our familiar sun to black holes and dark matter—David Garfinkle and Richard Garfinkle take readers on an utterly fascinating tour of the universe, revealing along the way how scientists uncover its mysteries.

“Science is often presented to the public as an unchanging and unchallengeable system of truths wrested by cabalistic means from nature. This book attempts something different. The authors’ aim is to remove the aura of mystery by taking the reader into the back rooms of science—showing how science is actually done—and thereby fostering a better understanding of what lies behind the (sometimes inflated) accounts found in popular science articles and news reports. I really enjoyed reading this book.”
Werner Israel, coeditor, with Stephen Hawking, of Three Hundred Years of Gravitation

David Garfinkle is professor in the Department of Physics at Oakland University. Richard Garfinkle is the author of two books of science fiction, Celestial Matters and All of an Instant.

 

They are available for interviews. For more information, please contact Stephanie Hlywak at (773) 702-0376 or shlywak@press.uchicago.edu

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