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.

OMG Math

There is a tremendous amount of math involved, but the concepts were conveyed clearly, probably clearer than a lot of other books on Physics.

I highly recommend following along with the PDF.

very good.

all good. but the part with time travel us, well, not real in my vision of the whole, of our existence.

opinion

in my opinion it's a little bit too much to digest in the book unless you're willing to relisten to certain parts multiple times as I had to. aside from that it was an interesting book

A Difficult Listen

There’s a lot of complex math described. Without the equations in front of you, it’s hard to follow, if not impossible. Still, the more descriptive material is presented well. You get a good feel for what astrophysics is and what it has contributed to the human body of knowledge. Overall, it is worth the time invested to help understand our place in the multiverse - nowhere special.

I found it interesting that they still can’t answer the simple question, “Why?” Guess that is left to philosophy and religion.

Hard to chew for a laymen, still good though.

I enjoyed this as my first space book. I’m not a scientist or anything so there was a fair amount of this info I just couldn’t keep up with but still the overall info being presented is good and helps even a laymen like me understand a bit more about this giant place we hang out in. I’d say go for it if your interested in a challenge. Let’s go to mars.

Great Book, tough listen

Fascinating information, but would have much preferred the print version. The mathematical formulas and technical language at times were hard to follow in the audio version.