What’s Eating the Universe?

Author Paul Davies
Narrator Marston York
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Publish Date 2 September 2021
Run Time 4 hours and 31 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Astrophysics, Cosmology and the universe, Popular astronomy and space, Popular science, Science: general issues, Space science.

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In the constellation of Eridanus there lurks a cosmic mystery. It's as if something has taken a huge bite out of the universe, leaving a super-void. What could be the culprit? A super massive black hole? Another, bigger universe? Or an expanding vacuum bubble, destined to envelop and annihilate everything in existence?

Scientists now understand the history of our universe better than the history of our own planet, but they continue to uncover startling new riddles-the hole in the universe being just one. In this electrifying book, award-winning physicist Paul Davies walks us through the puzzles and paradoxes that have preoccupied cosmologists from ancient Greece to the present day. Laying bare the audacious research that has led us to mind-bending solutions, Davies reveals how we might begin to approach the greatest outstanding enigmas of all.

© Paul Davies 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Critics Review

Brilliant. You won’t find a clearer, more engaging guide to what we know (or would like to know) about the universe and how it is put together.

author of The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Paul Davies gives us a thought-provoking, fascinating, and delightful journey through some of the big questions that have perplexed and tantalized scientists throughout history. These are the questions and paradoxes that have stumped and teased history’s greatest minds. What happened before the beginning? What is the meaning of the universe? Are there other universes?

Michio Kaku

Paul Davies brings his customary lucidity to a survey of some of the most fascinating and puzzling aspects of our universe, simultaneously educating us about its vertiginous wonders and giving us a real sense of science’s questions as it confronts and explores them and wrestles with their mystery. It is an absorbing and stimulating read, one of the best of its kind.

author of The Frontiers of Knowledge

Compelling … Davies excels in succinctly addressing the cosmological conundrums that haven’t received as much attention as dark matter, dark energy, what triggered the big bang and the fate of the universe

Forbes

A whistle-stop tour of the biggest mysteries that cosmologists are investigating today … a fun way of making sure you’re all caught up on where cosmology is at today

Physics World

What’s Eating the Universe? is a veritable feast for curious minds. Davies, a polymath and lyrical writer, masterfully tackles all the big questions ranging from why this Universe to the meaning of life and the significance of the present moment-a whirlwind journey through ideas that have shaped our understanding of the cosmos and its constituents.

author of Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos

A great introduction for readers new to physics …Lessons in cosmology and astrophysics abound in this enthusiastic primer

Publishers Weekly

Understanding theoretical physics is a daunting task, but What’s Eating the Universe?is here to guide readers through the field. Each chapter is short-less than 10 pages-but jargon-free and full of information … Regardless of the reader’s prior physics knowledge, the book provides an accessible introduction to cosmology

Physics Today

What’s Eating the Universe? is Paul Davies at his very best. He brings a lifetime of experience in explaining mysteries of space and time to offer thought-provoking essays on deep questions in bite-sized, easily digestible chunks. There is no better overview of the advances made by cosmologists in recent decades.

author of Six Impossible Things: The 'Quanta of Solace' and the Mysteries of the Subatomic World

A delightful account of the cutting edge of modern cosmology. He is truly exceptional at explaining all of this in his inimitable style–let’s say ‘astropoetry’

Simon Mitton, University of Cambridge

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