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Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand: Fifty Wonders That Reveal an Extraordinary Universe - Softcover

Chown, Marcus

 
9781789292060: Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand: Fifty Wonders That Reveal an Extraordinary Universe
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1789292069 ISBN 13: 9781789292060
Verlag: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Bestselling author Marcus Chown explores some of the most profound and important science about us, our world and the universe with fifty fascinating and mind-bending facts.

Our adventures in space, our deepening understanding of the quantum world and huge leaps in technology over the last century have revealed a universe far stranger than we could ever have imagined. With brilliant clarity and wit, bestselling author Marcus Chown examines the profound science behind fifty remarkable scientific facts that help explain the vast complexities of our existence. Did you know that you could fit the whole human race in the volume of a sugar cube? Or that the electrical energy in a single mosquito is enough to cause a global mass extinction? Or that, out there in the universe, there are an infinite number of copies of you reading an infinite number of copies of this?

Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand is a mind-bending journey through some of the most weird and wonderful facts about our universe, vividly illuminating the hidden truths that govern our everyday lives.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. His books include Breakthrough, The Ascent of Gravity, (which was the Sunday Times 2017 Science Book of the Year), Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand, What A Wonderful World, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, We Need to Talk About Kelvin and Afterglow of Creation. The latter two of which were runners-up for the Royal Society Book Prize. Marcus has also won the Bookseller's Digital Innovation of the Year Award for Solar System for iPad.

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Our adventures in space, our deepening understanding of the quantum world and huge leaps in technology over the last century have revealed a universe far stranger than we could ever have imagined. With brilliant clarity and wit, bestselling author Marcus Chown examines the profound science behind fifty remarkable scientific facts that help explain the vast complexities of our existence. Did you know that you could fit the whole human race in the volume of a sugar cube? Or that the electrical energy in a single mosquito is enough to cause a global mass extinction? Or that, out there in the universe, there are an infinite number of copies of you reading an infinite number of copies of this?

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Verlag
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1789292069
ISBN 13 
9781789292060
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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