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  • The Universe in a Box

  • A New Cosmic History
  • By: Andrew Pontzen
  • Narrated by: Andrew Pontzen
  • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Will we ever truly understand our cosmic home? This is the story of the technologies that allow us to look up, to learn and to discover our place in the cosmos.

We are part of an incredible chain of events stretching 13.8 billion years into the past and even further into the future. But what does that future hold? And how do scientists study the entire universe?

The Universe in a Box is Andrew Pontzen's tribute to simulations - the remarkable computer codes that, over the last century, have allowed us to understand the distant past and far future of the universe. It reframes what we think we know about galaxies, black holes and matter itself. And it reveals the stories of the pioneering scientists who unlocked the mysteries of space, from redshift to improbable dark materials that pass, ghostlike, through solid rock.

Illuminating, provocative and bold, this is the story of our home, the cosmos, through simulations: mini-universes inside computers.
©2023 Andrew Pontzen (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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Critic reviews

An electrifying new history of the universe and how it all fits together, and of the human effort to unlock its mysteries (Hannah Fry, author of Rutherford and Fry’s Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything)
A truly excellent exposition of a fascinating, little-understood, and very important scientific activity. I was enlightened, amazed, and profoundly impressed. I've seldom seen a book (and this is an age of really good writing about science for the general public) so clear, so vivid (Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials)
Forget telescopes and microscopes, Pontzen's laboratory sits inside his computer and it is quickly becoming the most important tool in science (Jim Al-Khalili, author of The Joy of Science)

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Understanding how we understand the world

Phantastic overview of how models and simulations help validating knowledge. Read by the author himself, who knows exactly what to emphasize.

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