The Invisible Universe: Why There’s More to Reality than Meets the Eye, reviewed

We look at this excellent popular science book. The Invisible Universe: Why There’s More to Reality than Meets the Eye is written by Matthew Bothwell. You find out more about it here.

The Invisible Universe: Why There’s More to Reality than Meets the Eye, reviewed

This book is a great read, it works really well in terms of taking complex concepts and walking them through in understandable sections. We really enjoyed reading it and will definitely be recommending it to many general readers. The author, Matthew Bothwell has a sense of wonder and joy about the concepts and ideas he is explaining. His enthusiasm and marvel is contagious and helps the reader to follow the narrative he is aiming to communicate.

It is definitely the best book we have read and reviewed in 2022, well worth reading, even as it makes you realise how small and insignificant we are within the context of the cosmos.

More about the book

From the discovery of entirely new kinds of galaxies to a window into cosmic ‘prehistory’, Bothwell shows us the Universe as we’ve never seen it before – literally.

Since the dawn of our species, people all over the world have gazed in awe at the night sky. But for all the beauty and wonder of the stars, when we look with just our eyes we are seeing and appreciating only a tiny fraction of the Universe. What does the cosmos have in store for us beyond the phenomena we can see, from black holes to supernovas? How different does the invisible Universe look from the home we thought we knew? Dr Matt Bothwell takes us on a journey through the full spectrum of light and beyond, revealing what we have learned about the mysteries of the Universe.

This book is a guide to the ninety-nine per cent of cosmic reality we can’t see – the Universe that is hidden, right in front of our eyes. It is also the endpoint of a scientific detective story thousands of years in the telling. It is a tour through our Invisible Universe.

More about the author

Dr Matt Bothwell is Public Astronomer at the University of Cambridge and a science communicator who gives astronomy talks and lectures on almost any area of astronomy, and makes regular media appearances (including local and national TV and radio). When he is not doing outreach, Matt is an observational astronomer, who uses a range of state-of-the-art observing facilities to study the evolution of galaxies across cosmic time.

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