--- product_id: 399082833 title: "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion" price: "AR$74728" currency: ARS in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/399082833-the-biggest-ideas-in-the-universe-space-time-and-motion store_origin: AR region: Argentina --- # The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion **Price:** AR$74728 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion - **How much does it cost?** AR$74728 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.ar](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/399082833-the-biggest-ideas-in-the-universe-space-time-and-motion) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Most appealing... technical accuracy and lightness of tone ... Impeccable. ” —Wall Street Journal “ A porthole into another world. ” —Scientific American “ Brings science dissemination to a new level. ” —Science The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll, with his genius for making complex notions entertaining, presents in his uniquely lucid voice the fundamental ideas informing the modern physics of reality. Physics offers deep insights into the workings of the universe but those insights come in the form of equations that often look like gobbledygook. Sean Carroll shows that they are really like meaningful poems that can help us fly over sierras to discover a miraculous multidimensional landscape alive with radiant giants, warped space-time, and bewilderingly powerful forces. High school calculus is itself a centuries-old marvel as worthy of our gaze as the Mona Lisa. And it may come as a surprise the extent to which all our most cutting-edge ideas about black holes are built on the math calculus enables. No one else could so smoothly guide readers toward grasping the very equation Einstein used to describe his theory of general relativity. In the tradition of the legendary Richard Feynman lectures presented sixty years ago, this book is an inspiring, dazzling introduction to a way of seeing that will resonate across cultural and generational boundaries for many years to come. Review: Makes big physics ideas approachable - This book does a wonderful job making deep physics concepts accessible without dumbing them down. The explanations are clear and the author's enthusiasm is contagious, and I appreciated that it doesn't shy away from the actual equations. It's engaging whether you're a curious beginner or brushing up. Arrived in great condition and a genuinely rewarding read. Review: A very useful book - The author has explained the subject in a very clear and comprehensive way and also shown the path to the future usage of relativity theory in cosmology and particle physics. I highly recommend this book. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #29,548 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3 in Physics of Gravity (Books) #9 in Relativity Physics (Books) #12 in Cosmology (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,339 Reviews | ## Images ![The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/712pAS+WdXL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Makes big physics ideas approachable *by S***N on July 29, 2026* This book does a wonderful job making deep physics concepts accessible without dumbing them down. The explanations are clear and the author's enthusiasm is contagious, and I appreciated that it doesn't shy away from the actual equations. It's engaging whether you're a curious beginner or brushing up. Arrived in great condition and a genuinely rewarding read. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A very useful book *by S***L on May 28, 2026* The author has explained the subject in a very clear and comprehensive way and also shown the path to the future usage of relativity theory in cosmology and particle physics. I highly recommend this book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The money line: “We don’t know the final laws of physics..." *by G***R on November 20, 2022* In reading the professional reviews of Carroll’s books I get the impression that he is the Carl Sagan of physics. His enthusiasm is palpable, his desire to bring physics into the mainstream is obviously sincere, and he makes a laudatory attempt to explain that physics is often, but not always, as advanced as the mass audience is often led to believe. Contrary to what the Wall Street Journal writes in its Amazon review, however, this book is not “reader-friendly,” assuming, of course, you do not have an advanced degree in physics or some variation of advanced calculus. For the rest of us, it is a very challenging read. And while that is not meant with any disrespect to the author, who is obviously brilliant and sincere, it is a warning to any potential reader looking for a comfortable winter read in front of the fire. I will, however, give Carroll great credit for not over-playing the hand of physics. He openly admits that physics, and by implication, science in general, is not the hard, granite-like “truth” that contemporary society often portrays it to be. “The science says” is often used today, with great exaggeration, in many news articles attempting to reinforce a conclusion that is far from conclusive in any final sense. Science is not like the ancient bone we dig up at an archeological dig. It is more like the conjecture we assign to that bone. Science, in fact, is not a body of knowledge at all. It is a methodology, or the outline of one, for discovering knowledge. But it is the equation, not its solution. And it is an equation that can take many different forms. There is not one equation, or very, very few, that rise to the level of “law.” Mathematics is no different. We didn’t “discover” it buried deep in the earth somewhere. We – humans – developed it. As the author notes, equations are “just a way to compactly summarize a relationship between different quantities.” And “A function is simply a map from one quantity to another quantity.” Mathematics, in other words, is simply a system or notation used to attempt to understand the world around us – emphasis on attempt. As a result, there are several models of reality, all mathematically “sound”, but often burdened by gaps and even contradictions between models. As Carroll notes, “We don’t know the final laws of physics, so we should be open to different possibilities while we think about what they might be.” And that, to me, is the money line of the book, which extends far beyond physics itself. “Science is empirical and fallibilistic – any of our scientific theories could be wrong, no matter how much evidence we have so far accumulated for them.” Which is why so many, and I do mean many, scientific theories are ultimately proven wrong and why things like clinical drug trials are often impossible to replicate. I attribute this to the infinitely broad umbrella of context. Nothing that we can observe or measure exists in total isolation. Context cannot, and in my mind never will be, reduced to notation, no matter how complex that notational language may be. Context is of infinite breadth and, perhaps more importantly, depth. Which is why I believe the title itself, with its use of the concept of “ideas”, is a bit inappropriate. Spacetime, to me, is not an idea. Beauty is an idea. Spacetime is a system for explaining one component of reality, but not, of and by itself, a piece of reality we found while hiking in the mountains. Ideas, to my way of thinking, are like shiny objects we discover in the rumpled fabric of reality. Having said all that, this is a very sound book for the right reader. If you are not already proficient in the notational language of calculus and physics, however, you will find it a difficult read. I will confess, however, there are moments of entertainment if you define entertainment as anything that brings anything positioned “beyond” us down to our very human level of understanding. Perhaps its greatest contribution, however, is that it does distill the greatest “laws” of physics posed to date into one modest-sized book. And it makes a valiant effort to tie them all together with a bow. That’s no small undertaking given that tomes have been written about most of them individually. For that the author is deserving of our thanks and our admiration and, if you’re up to it, our purchase. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion - Quanta and Fields: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe - Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/399082833-the-biggest-ideas-in-the-universe-space-time-and-motion](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/399082833-the-biggest-ideas-in-the-universe-space-time-and-motion) --- *Product available on Desertcart Argentina* *Store origin: AR* *Last updated: 2026-09-18*