Brian Cox's Book Recommendations

"Terrific."

"This great podcast from @seanmcarroll talking to David Albert about the measurement problem in Quantum Mechanics introduced me to a terrific book - What is Real? by Adam Becker. It’s fascinating on the history of QM, Bell’s theorem, Many Worlds ...."

"The best intro text book in my view."

"@rationalist44 (1) is easy - there are two components, but for distant galaxies the so-called ‘proper motion’ is negligible. (2) You need a little GR. Look up cosmological redshift. The best intro text book in my view is Hartle - the calculation is in section 18.2."

"A great book for many reasons."

"@StrongLikeBear @ShalanSharma @Dagk Yes, that’s right. I think it’s correct to say that many biologists (not all) believe the step from prokaryote to eukaryote was highly unlikely. See for example Nick Lane’s Life Ascending - a great book for many reasons."

"Describes how we damaged our aviation industry with a series of short-sighted political decisions in the late 60s and 70s."

"@thestigmaster And I agree with you on this. There is a great book called Empire of the Clouds which describes how we damaged our aviation industry with a series of short-sighted political decisions in the late 60s and 70s."

"This will be worth hearing - Martin Rees’s book ‘On The Future’ is very good."

"I agree. Superb from @matthewsyed . As an aside, E. O. Wilson’s book ‘Consilience’ made a big impact on me when I first read it in the late ‘90s."

"Re-reading Clarke’s Childhood’s End after decades. Wonderful book - set in 2050 ish but an astronomer has to go to a library to look up a star’s catalogue number. Very few sci-fi novels predicted the internet!"

"This is a great book. I’ve read an advanced copy :-)"

"@Robwilliams71 A good place to start on the Black Holes thing is “The Black Hole War” by Leonard Susskind. For the quantum computing stuff, it’s so recent that nobody has yet written a book on it!"

"This is indeed a superb book!"