"Wonder: The Mystery of the Moon, the Beginning of the Universe and the Beginning of Life" Author: [UK] John Gribbin Beijing United Publishing Company

🌌 John Gribbin, a world-renowned physicist, winner of the British Science Writers Association's "Lifetime Achievement Award", and a bestseller 30 years after his book "Searching for Schrödinger's Cat", has published a new popular science masterpiece

🌌Praised by Giles Sparrow, a popular science writer for Physics World and BBC's Looking Up at the Night Sky

🌌Open this book to appreciate a series of amazing astrophysical wonders and explore the mysteries of the moon, the infinite universe, and the common ancestor of complex life on Earth.

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Following the popular "Searching for Schrödinger's Cat" and "Profound Simplicity", John Gribbin draws readers' attention to some seemingly impossible but amazing wonders of astrophysics. For example:

“Only when the sun and the moon appear to be the same size in the sky can the creatures on Earth see the wonder of a total solar eclipse, and this wonderful coincidence happened neither too early nor too late, at the moment when human civilization appeared.

"The water rotates in the bucket and rises along the bucket wall to form a concave liquid surface because it 'feels' the gravitational force of everything in the distant galaxy and universe.

"The common ancestor of all complex life on Earth is a single-celled organism. However, without the stabilizing effect of the moon, primitive organisms would not have been able to evolve into life forms like humans."

This will be a fantastic scientific journey that subverts our cognition. As Physics World said: "Gribbin skillfully connects the dots to reveal a bigger picture that is more amazing than the sum of its parts."

John Gribbin

He holds a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Cambridge, is a renowned contemporary British astrophysicist and popular science writer. He has worked for the scientific journal Nature and New Scientist magazine, and is currently an honorary senior researcher in astronomy at the University of Sussex in the UK.

Gribbin has written many books on a wide range of topics, including quantum physics, the origin of the universe, climate change, etc. He was praised by The Spectator magazine as "one of the most outstanding and prolific contemporary popular science writers."

He has created more than 100 popular science books, which have won multiple awards in the UK and the US and have been translated into more than 30 languages ​​and widely circulated, including "Searching for Schrödinger's Cat" and "The Biography of Stephen Hawking". Among them, "Searching for Schrödinger's Cat" is generally considered to be the best book on quantum physics before "A Brief History of Time".

In 2009, Gribbin was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Association of Science Writers.