the edge of the sky

Sometimes a book comes along that is so profoundly simple it is simply profound.  

Roberto Trotta's small but mighty book, The Edge of the Sky: All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is - pared back writing that uses less than 1,000 of the most common words in English to describe things like dark matter and multiverses through clever metaphors - is such a book.  

In fact, if you want to catch a glimpse of the universe and its complexities, this is the book to start with... Dr. Trotto (who happens to be quite the handsome young fellow, I might add!) has created something completely accessible and entertaining

This book?  It's now in my top 10 all-time list.

Love it.

An excellent review on the book can be found here:  The Edge of the Sky.

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When I read stuff like this, it doesn't detract from my spiritual bent on all things universe; it reinforces it.  The sky's a big place, a big space.  And that's only what we can see (so far) - and through to its end reaches, what might be found, I wonder?

To be sentient, to be aware, to be conscious, is such an amazing gift.  We are so very beholden to this universe we abide within, we truly are.