Tweeting the universe - Govert Schilling

In 140 pages, two masterly popularisers present 140 explanations of
the biggest questions in physics - in the form of 10 or so tweets per
page. They set themselves the challenge of boiling down what is
essential on each subject into sentences of 140 characters, and the
results are both entertaining and brilliantly informative. Not a word is
wasted. The reader is not patronized and learns something on every
page. If only all science writing could be so precise and so economical.

Only science writers of a very high calibre could
achieve such compression. Marcus Chown - 'the finest cosmology writer of
our day' (Matt Ridley) - has known the Dutch writer Govert Schilling
for twenty years. Schilling pioneered this very swift form of
explanation in a Dutch newspaper, and suggested to Chown that they
collaborate on bringing it to a wider audience. Tweeting the Universe is unlike any other science book.