This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works audiobook runs 12.1 hours unabridged, narrated by Michelle Ford and Peter Berkrot and others (about 8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 12.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 25 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
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What our data says
- At 12.1 hours, it runs longer than 86% of the 39,028 Non-Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Michelle Ford
Michelle Ford narrates 21 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 126 hours in all.
About as long, on the Non-Fiction shelf
3,865 Non-Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works is an audiobook by John Brockman: a 12.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Michelle Ford, Peter Berkrot and Antony Ferguson and others, released February 5, 2014, on the Non-Fiction shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- Michelle Ford, Peter Berkrot, Antony Ferguson, Ann Marie Lee
- Released
- February 5, 2014
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Non-Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781452689142
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works audiobook?
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works runs 12.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8 hours.
Is the This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works audiobook free?
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Who narrates This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works?
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works is narrated by Michelle Ford, Peter Berkrot, Antony Ferguson and Ann Marie Lee.
Is This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8 hours, saving 4 hours.