You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe – A Lively Biography of Physics and Cosmology - Softcover

Potter, Christopher

 
9780061137877: You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe – A Lively Biography of Physics and Cosmology
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0061137871 ISBN 13: 9780061137877
Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

“You Are Here is not just physics for poets, but as close to poetry or music as science is ever likely to get. Christopher Potter’s narrative is as imaginative, ingenious, and elegantly concise as it is user-friendly.” — Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind

“A personal, brilliant, and often amusing account . . . . An idiosyncratic, encyclopedic blitzkrieg of a book.” —The Boston Globe

“The Verdict: Read.” — Time

Christopher Potter’s You Are Here is a lively and accessible biography of the universe—how it fits together and how we fit into it—in the style of science writers like Richard Dawkins, Bill Bryson, and Richard Feynman, as seen through the lens of today’s most cutting-edge scientific thinking.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Christopher Potter is the former publisher and managing director of 4th Estate. He lives in London and New York City.

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You Are Here is a dazzling exploration of the universe and our relationship to it, as seen through the lens of today's most cutting-edge scientific thinking. Here, for the first time in a single span, is the life of the universe, from quarks to galaxy superclusters and from slime to Homo sapiens. Christopher Potter brilliantly tells the story of how something evolved from nothing and how something became everything; how the universe was once a moment of perfect symmetry and is now 13.7 billion years of history. With wisdom and wonder, Potter traverses the cosmos from its conception to its eventual end—while exploring everything in between.

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Verlag
Harper Perennial
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0061137871
ISBN 13 
9780061137877
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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