[14] The Universe Within: Neil Turok - Review

This is a kind of history of science. Often I was reminded of Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Cosmos episodes where you can take on a picture of the whole world of leaps and information. You'll get a lot of the big names from your introductory science classes but a deeper exploration into their significance and relations to each other. The tone if very optimistic and seeks to tie in the implications of physics into everyday understandings of life and ourselves.

It does a good job of tying together discoveries. Even if you don't know anything of electricity and the magnetism of electrons and their spins, you'll get bare bones analogies and descriptions that will at least give you a sense that the world is quite more mysterious than we imagine. Inferences and observation continue to gives us the math to keep trying.

This is advocacy through history. Turok tries to paint the picture that connects us all and motivates the pursuit of knowledge as well as the appreciation that comes with understanding its impact on our lives. You can read it for names, just as a launch point, or to get a sense of the physics world, but you'll leave feeling the importance of the message. I, at least, feel like I want to be in a physics class or two and join the crowd who can claim to be describing the very nature of existence.