Astrophysics for Poets is a work of (mostly) nonfiction describing the totally bizarre things that science has learned about the nature of reality in just the last 125 years. And there's a lot to talk about: Believe it or not:
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There are two universes.
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Water is not wet.
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Solid objects are not solid. Or objects.
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Time does not flow.
New Age mystics like Deepak Choprah and Rhonda Byrne love to toss the words "quantum physics" into their writing to make it sound as if the nonsense they're spinning out has a basis in science. But it doesn't.
In other words, Astrophysics for Poets is the book that Deepak Choprah would write if he actually knew anything about how quantum physics works.
The result is a journey that takes readers out to the far edges of the cosmos, back before the beginning of time, and down to the deepest levels of reality itself.
Read a representative sample below.
Do you know how big the solar system is?
I mean: do you really know how big the solar system is? How much bigger the Sun is than the Earth? How far apart they are?
I promise you: whatever image you have in your head is nowhere close to the actual scale of outer space.
Quantum Physics was developed solely for use at the subatomic level. Application beyond this intended use, and particularly outside of this scale of effectiveness, is not recommended and may be dangerous, leading to conditions such as: unwarranted conclusions, unsubstantiated claims, complete nonsense, magical thinking, New-Age philosophies, delusions of grandeur, pseudo-scientific gibberish, and blatant hucksterism.
What does the edge of the Universe look like? And what's on the other side?
Ask the dog.