Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe

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Generally Cox is really good at simplifying complex ideas but here, except for the odd paragraph or two, he failed. Anyway, the two particles would be entangled, and one of them escapes, while the other one remains inside the hole.

He was awarded the 1999 James Clerk Maxwell Medal by the UK’s Institute of Physics to recognise outstanding early career contributions to theoretical physics and the 2013 Kelvin Medal for outstanding and sustained contributions to public engagement.In this book "Blackholes,the key to understanding the Universe,” authors Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw provided a captivating and insightful exploration of this nature's mysterious creations - blackholes.

I especially appreciated the clear explanations of Penrose diagrams and their use to explain different types of black holes.This is a bit unusual start (at least for me, a nonphysicist who learn only from popular science book), because I always learn about a black hole from a physical process (the collapse of a star), not a purely theoretical one like Schwarzschild's. A good portion of the book is a crash course in Einstein's theory of relativity (special and general). We have a picture where the interior of the black hole becomes — in some sense — the same place as the exterior. But for a while, I got hung up on proposed visual observations in the book and therefore somewhere had misunderstood. And yet I enjoyed it even if a lot of it sailed right over my head, probably at the speed of light, quantumly.

If the Rotations per Minute (RPM) of a spinning wheel matches the frames per second (FPS) of a video camera then the wheel on film is observed to slow to a stop. Anyway, now we come to another “real” (in a sense that it was observed) property of black holes - Hawking radiation. But if you like to know more about the universe, and would like to really like to see how the real scientists go about it, try this book.Just um, brush up on your Penrose diagrams before you jump in (or hover for eternity at the horizon, depending on who you ask). Richard Feynman, one of the smartest people who ever lived and did ground breaking work in the field said don't feel bad if you don't understand quantum mechanics - nobody does.