Episode · StarTalk Radio · 2024-12-28
Books mentioned on Confronting Neil With Our Burning Questions… Again!
Neil deGrasse Tyson recommended Mr. Tompkins in paperback by George Gamow, and discussed Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland by George Gamow and Cosmotheoros by Christiaan Huygens.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland
Mr.
Discussed“now that being said there's a book series called Mr Tomkins in Wonderland written by a physicist George gamma the mid 20th century physicist brilliant yeah he first calculated that after the big bang you would have a cosmic microwave background okay made very important calculation anyhow he wrote A series he wrote for the public so he's after my”
Where to get it
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Mr. Tompkins in paperback
Mr.
Recommended“Now that being said, there's a book series called Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland written by a physicist, George Gamow, a mid-20th-century physicist; brilliant!”
Where to get it
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Cosmotheoros
Why people recommend it: Cosmotheoros by Christiaan Huygens is a fascinating historical treatise exploring the philosophical and scientific speculations surrounding extraterrestrial life in the solar system.
Discussed“I'll read to you from his book Cosmo Theos Cosmo pheros 1898”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged To Infinity and Beyond
“so one of our other producers Lindsay and I co-wrote a book called to infinity and beyond where we tracked what people were thinking in their day and how far away was whatever dream they had technologically intellectually scientifically in the year 1700”
Plugged Accessory to War
“he's he's right in a lot of ways here especially since I wrote a whole book on this okay accessory to war the unspoken Alliance of astrophysics and the military”