How long does it take to read Big Bang?
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Big Bang by Simon Singh takes about 9 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 45 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 532 pages, about 146,300 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"This book tells the story of the many brilliant, often eccentric scientists who fought against the establishment idea of an eternal and unchanging cosmos. From such early Greek cosmologists as Anaximander to recent satellite measurements taken deep in space, Big Bang is a narrative full of anecdotes and personal histories. Simon Singh tells the centuries-long story of mankind's attempt to understand how the universe came to be, a story which itself begins some 14 billion years ago (give or take a billion years)."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Big bang theory, Popular works, General relativity (Physics), Cosmology, Oerexplosie, Big bang
