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How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe - Softcover

Cliff, Dr Harry

 
9781529026214: How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1529026210 ISBN 13: 9781529026214
Verlag: Picador, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

‘If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe’ - Carl Sagan

Inspired by Sagan’s famous line, How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch sets out on a journey to unearth everything we know about our universe: how it started, how we found out, and what we still have left to discover . . .

‘Witty, approachable and captivating’ - Robin Ince
‘A fascinating exploration of how we learned what matter really is’ - Sean Carroll

Will we ever be able to understand the very first moments of the world we inhabit? What is matter really made of? How did anything survive the fearsome heat of the Big Bang?

In pursuit of answers, we meet the scientists, astronomers and philosophers who brought us to our present understanding of the world – offering readers a front-row seat to the most dramatic journey human beings have ever embarked on.

TED Talk speaker and academic Harry Cliff's How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch is an essential, fresh and funny guide to how we got to where we are now – and what we have to come.

‘A delightfully fresh and accessible approach to one of the great quests of science’ - Graham Farmelo
‘Lays out not just what we know, but how we found out (and what is left to be discovered’ - Katie Mack

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Harry Cliff is a particle physicist based at the University of Cambridge and was a curator at the Science Museum in London for seven years. He regularly gives public lectures and makes TV and radio appearances. His 2015 TED talk 'Have We Reached The End Of Physics?' has been viewed over 2.5 million times. He is the author of How To Make an Apple Pie From Scratch and Space Oddities. He lives in London.

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1529026210
ISBN 13 
9781529026214
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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