โ Scribed by David Siegel Bernstein
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
If you've ever wondered how much real science goes into movies like Gravity , novels like The Martian , and television shows like Dr. Who , this is the book for you. Written by an author who is both a data scientist and a science fiction writer, this entertaining science primer provides lucid, jargon-free explanations of key scientific principles while referencing well-known science fiction books, movies, and TV shows.
The reader learns about relativity through Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and the movie Interstellar ; black holes and wormholes in connection with Contact and Planet of the Apes ; theories about the origin of life as reflected in Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: The Next Generation , and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ; computer science and artificial intelligence in reference to A.I. Artificial Intelligence ; and much, much, more.
Written with wit, clarity, and a great sense of fun,...
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