Alexander Masters

In the sky with diamonds

But in The Universe in Your Hand, Christophe Galfard takes the reader by the hand to explain quarks, gluons, parallel universes and exploding suns in a friendly, avuncular-vicar manner

  • The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond

    Christophe Galfard

    Macmillan, pp. 436

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