Structure

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & Dreams Deferred is a nonfiction book written by physics and astronomy professor Chandra Prescod-Weinstein, which is written as a non-linear memoir. It talks about her experiences working in academic physics, which means that it contains equal amounts of space dedicated to talking about physics and to talking about social structures and Prescod-Weinstein’s work-life balance.

The Disordered Cosmos consists of an introduction, fourteen chapters and an epilogue, followed by acknowledgements, a recommended reading list and an index. The fourteen chapters are divided up into four sections, which Prescod-Weinstein calls phases. The first phase “Just Physics,” contains four chapters. Phase 2, “Physics and the Chosen Few,” contains three, Phase 3, “The Trouble with Physicists,” contains four, and Phase 4 “All Our Galactic Relations,” contains four. Prescod-Weinstein uses footnotes sporadically throughout the first two phases, and includes some images and diagrams in the...