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The Zoomable Universe: An Epic Tour Through Cosmic Scale, from Almost Everything to Nearly Nothing

de Caleb Scharf

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An epic, full-color visual journey through all scales of the universe InThe Zoomable Universe, the award-winning astrobiologist Caleb Scharf and the acclaimed artist Ron Miller take us on an epic tour through all known scales of reality, from the largest possible magnitude to the smallest. Drawing on cutting-edge science, they begin at the limits of the observable universe, a scale spanning 10^27 meters--about 93 billion light-years. And they end in the subatomic realm, at 10^-35 meters, where the fabric of space-time itself confounds all known rules of physics. In between are galaxies, stars and planets, oceans and continents, plants and animals, microorganisms, atoms, and much, much more. Stops along the way--all enlivened by Scharf's sparkling prose and his original insights into the nature of our universe--include the brilliant core of the Milky Way, the surface of a rogue planet, the back of an elephant, and a sea of jostling quarks. The Zoomable Universe is packed with more than 100 original illustrations and infographics that will captivate readers of every age. It is a whimsical celebration of discovery, a testament to our astounding ability to see beyond our own vantage point and chart a course from the farthest reaches of the cosmos to its subatomic depths--in short, a must-have for the shelves of all explorers.… (mais)
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A great and fascinating look from the cosmos down to the atoms, the nuts and bolts and more of how the universe (and us, and everything) works. The book does a really good job of explaining more of the jargon and technical side and hard to understand aspects of the science (quarks, string theory, quantum mechanics, foam, multi-verse, etc.) Some of the science was a bit dumbed down and a few liberties taken to make things make sense (laymen wise) but overall it was done for the better good and to make things make more sense as a whole.

The artwork in the book is absolutely beautiful and the infographics are very well done and help showcase whatever is being discussed. ( )
  BenKline | Jul 1, 2020 |
This was an awesome journey that gave me a sense of being a part of a universe aware of itself. The trip goes in a very logical order and the writing is clear and entertaining as well. It has many illustrations. I read this in ebook format on a tablet so that I could zoom in on the images and see them in color. The science is made understandable, or at least as much as is possible when we get down to those very small bits. ( )
  ajlewis2 | Jul 11, 2018 |
This largish-format color-illustration book summarizes all known reality on all 63 order-of-magnitude scales from the whole observable universe (10^27 meters) down to the Planck length (10^-35 m). Except for 16 "empty" (?) scales between elementary particles and the Planck length, each scale description is centered around an anchoring illustration. (I was a little disappointed that not every one of these anchor images zooms in on the exact center of its predecessor, but perhaps that would be difficult or impossible to arrange.) The volume would be a beautiful and informative intro-to-science book for those in need of such.
  fpagan | Mar 2, 2018 |
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An epic, full-color visual journey through all scales of the universe InThe Zoomable Universe, the award-winning astrobiologist Caleb Scharf and the acclaimed artist Ron Miller take us on an epic tour through all known scales of reality, from the largest possible magnitude to the smallest. Drawing on cutting-edge science, they begin at the limits of the observable universe, a scale spanning 10^27 meters--about 93 billion light-years. And they end in the subatomic realm, at 10^-35 meters, where the fabric of space-time itself confounds all known rules of physics. In between are galaxies, stars and planets, oceans and continents, plants and animals, microorganisms, atoms, and much, much more. Stops along the way--all enlivened by Scharf's sparkling prose and his original insights into the nature of our universe--include the brilliant core of the Milky Way, the surface of a rogue planet, the back of an elephant, and a sea of jostling quarks. The Zoomable Universe is packed with more than 100 original illustrations and infographics that will captivate readers of every age. It is a whimsical celebration of discovery, a testament to our astounding ability to see beyond our own vantage point and chart a course from the farthest reaches of the cosmos to its subatomic depths--in short, a must-have for the shelves of all explorers.

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