Marcus Chown is an award-winning science writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, his non-fiction books include Breakthrough, What a Wonderful World, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You and The Ascent of Gravity, which was The Sunday Times Book of the Year. His fiction includes Felicity Frobisher and the Three-Headed Aldebaran Dust Devil. Chown also launched the Solar System for iPad app, which won The Bookseller Digital Innovation of the Year.
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Rather than trying to bend your mind around all the vast and confounding details of things such as gravitational waves, electricity, and black holes, wouldn't it be easier to understand just one central concept from which everything else follows? I... SEE MORE