Waves By Degarasse Tyson Summary

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Astrophysics for people in a hurry is an intensely informative book questioning both what is the universe we live in and what role do we play in it. Although this book was intimidating at first, deGrasse Tyson offers the easiest explanations of what he talks about. Such information the book contains are: the hunk of matter, we live on called Earth and its relationships to the sun, asteroids, and other planets. The book deGrasse Tyson writes also dives into the unknown world of dark matter and energy, light, what’s between the galaxies, and stars. Throughout the book, deGrasse Tyson explains how the spiritual beliefs people hold can be explained using science, more specifically astrophysics. This book also explains the difference in the discovery of our universe today compared to two hundred years ago. I enjoyed this book thoroughly. I honestly wish it didn’t end because I was so engulfed with what deGrasse Tyson had to say.
The connection to Physics in this book is obvious. One example is in chapter
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This chapter talks about the discovery of ultraviolet light, infrared light, and other forms of light not visible to the human eye. Within this chapter it also talks about Heinrich Hertz and how he “had shown that the only real difference among the various kinds of light is the frequency of the waves in each band” ( pg 65). As we know, Hertz is the unit used for frequency, rather known as ‘waves per second’. Although we talked about Hz a lot during unit ten, it was interesting to see the formation of Hz/the background behind it. Hertz was the first one to recognize that there was such a thing as the electromagnetic spectrum, while astrophysicists were still behind. I also found this interesting as well. Our technology was not advanced enough to look at these invisible waves, so we had to create something that would work. This is how our first telescope came to

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