Involved, knowledgeable in the science in question, intent on educating the boy, never condescending, always good-natured... if Tyson had had an educated rural Arkansas accent, I could have mistaken him for my late father.
(The question and the answer were both new to me as well!)
In that book I recently recommended... John Gribbin's In Search of the Multiverse... the last chapter deals with black hole generation and its potential for the formation of new universes. Several writers (sorry; I don't remember who, because Gribbin listed them and I read them late at night) have proposed a kind of "natural selection" of universe formation, not (as is so often claimed) for potential to support intelligent life, but for black hole creation, because the more there are, the more potential "offspring" a universe can have.
I'm as delighted as Tyson, but I lack his (and my father's) gift for teaching...
I'm (slowly and along with a lot of other things) reading Dawkin's Climbing Mount Improbable... not that I fully understand the evolutionary biology being discussed, but to expose myself to the scientific thought processes. If I come across Gribbin's book, I hope I will be able to understand some of it...
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Involved, knowledgeable in the science in question, intent on educating the boy, never condescending, always good-natured... if Tyson had had an educated rural Arkansas accent, I could have mistaken him for my late father.
(The question and the answer were both new to me as well!)
You obviously come from good stock...:)
What I love about Tyson is his joy of imparting scientific facts. He's so delighted that it's infectious.
In that book I recently recommended... John Gribbin's In Search of the Multiverse... the last chapter deals with black hole generation and its potential for the formation of new universes. Several writers (sorry; I don't remember who, because Gribbin listed them and I read them late at night) have proposed a kind of "natural selection" of universe formation, not (as is so often claimed) for potential to support intelligent life, but for black hole creation, because the more there are, the more potential "offspring" a universe can have.
I'm as delighted as Tyson, but I lack his (and my father's) gift for teaching...
I'm (slowly and along with a lot of other things) reading Dawkin's Climbing Mount Improbable... not that I fully understand the evolutionary biology being discussed, but to expose myself to the scientific thought processes. If I come across Gribbin's book, I hope I will be able to understand some of it...
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