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|title=The Edge of the Sky

|sort=Edge of the Sky, The

|publisher=Basic Books

|date=October 2014

|summary=A vital science book, showing how friendly particle physics can be to the reader when the right words are used to describe it. Well worth a look.

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''Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do''. Apparently that's advice to budding journalists and writers, and I do try to follow the English translation of it, if not completely successfully. Someone who seems to have no trouble whatsoever in agreeing with the dictum is Roberto Trotta. This book is his survey of current astrophysics and cosmological science, but one that has to convey everything it intends to by using only the most common thousand words of the English language. So there is no Big Bang as such, planets have to be called Crazy Stars – and it's soon evident you can't even describe the book with the word thousand either.