Boah, not is only Carlo Rovelli's "White Holes" one of the worst science books I've read, I also constantly have to politely explain to people that his theoretical predictions are not mainstreams and no, white holes are not something observable because there is no process in the universe that we know able to create them.

But mainly I want to sit down with them and explain how obviously manipulative the book is and where it does not do simple homework checking (well known, historical) facts 😩

@vicgrinberg such a waste of energy 😔
@venite yeah, and I hate that I have to very politely undo this, excuse my French, shit...
@vicgrinberg it’s the people who actually care about that are left with the mess

@vicgrinberg

Very few books will be as impactful to me as Steven Weinberg book "The First Three Minutes".

It's was the first book I read about cosmology and I found it fascinating 🙂

Lots of the details have changed of course over the last few decades 😌🤷‍♂️

@vicgrinberg I am glad you read it for me … 😅
@hfalcke it's a good study in "how to keep the reader engaged by making them feel clever - even cleverer than the scientists" while also being extremely sloppy on the science. I've read it after I had questions about it twice after my public outreach-y talks :(
@vicgrinberg I got questions too, but, honestly, didn’t consider it worth reading an entire book about someone‘s special theory… 😬
@hfalcke I was curious, kinda hoping that maybe the readers were misinterpreting. Plus it was a short book so I expected it to be a short read. It wasn't because I kept being so upset...
@vicgrinberg struck by Brandolini’s law?