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Afterglow of Creation: From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripplesby Marcus ChownISBN 0099280515 (0-09-928051-5)
Softcover, Arrow
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Double Planetby John Gribbin, Marcus ChownISBN 0380761572 (0-380-76157-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atomsby Marcus ChownISBN 0195143051 (0-19-514305-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms'Book summary:"Every breath you take contains atoms forged in the blistering furnaces deep inside stars. Every flower you pick contains atoms blasted into space by stellar explosions that blazed brighter than a billion suns." Thus begins The Magic Furnace, an eloquent, extraordinary account of how scientists unraveled the mystery of atoms, and helped to explain the dawn of life itself.
The historic search for atoms and their stellar origins is truly one of the greatest detective stories of science. In effect, it offers two epics intertwined: the birth of atoms in the Big Bang and the evolution of stars and how they work. Neither could be told without the other, for the stars contain the key to unlocking the secret of atoms, and the atoms the solution to the secret of the stars. Marcus Chown leads readers through the major theories and experiments that propelled the search for atomic understanding, with engaging characterizations of the major atomic thinkers-from Democritus in ancient Greece to Binning and Rohrer in twentieth-century New York. He clarifies the science, explaining with enthusiasm the sequence of breakthroughs that proved the existence of atoms as the "alphabet of nature" and the discovery of subatomic particles and atomic energy potential. From there, he engagingly chronicles the leaps of insight that eventually revealed the elements, the universe, our world, and ourselves to be a product of two ultimate furnaces: the explosion of the Big Bang and the interior of stars such as supernovae and red giants.
Chown successfully makes these massive concepts accessible for students, professionals, and science enthusiasts. His story sheds light on all of us, for in essence, we are all stardust.
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The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Scienceby Marcus ChownISBN 057122055X (0-571-22055-X)
Hardcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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Quantum Zoo: A Tourist's Guide to the Neverending Universeby Marcus ChownISBN 0309103118 (0-309-10311-8)
Softcover, Natl Academy Pr
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Reunionby John Gribbin, Marcus ChownISBN 0575052805 (0-575-05280-5)
Softcover, Gollancz Limited, Victor
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SETIby Marcus ChownISBN 057122010X (0-571-22010-X)
Hardcover, Faber & Faber, Incorporated
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Stars and Planetsby Marcus ChownISBN 0356118770 (0-356-11877-0)
Hardcover, MacDonald & Company (Publishers), Limited
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The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Scienceby Marcus ChownISBN 0195168844 (0-19-516884-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science'Book summary:The idea that an atom can be in two places at once defies logic. Yet this is now an established scientific fact. In The Universe Next Door, science writer Marcus Chown examines a dozen mind-bending new ideas that also fly in the face of reason--but that, according to eminent scientists, might just be crazy enough to be true.
Could time run backwards? Is there a fifth dimension? Does quantum theory promise immortality? To explore these questions, Chown has interviewed some of the most imaginative and courageous people working at the forefront of science, and he has come away with a smorgasbord of mind-expanding ideas. For instance, Lawrence Schulman at New York's Clarkson University believes there could be regions in our Universe where stars unexplode, eggs unbreak and living things grow younger with every passing second. Max Tegmark, at the University of Pennsylvania, believes there could be an infinity of realities stacked together like the pages of a never-ending book (with an infinite number of versions of you, living out an infinite number of different lives). And David Stevenson of Cal Tech argues that life may exist on worlds drifting in the cold, dark abyss between the stars, worlds without suns to warm them. Indeed, these worlds may be the most common sites for life in the universe.
Was our universe created by super-intelligent beings from another universe? Is there evidence of extraterrestrial life lying right beneath our feet? The Universe Next Door ponders these and many other thought-provoking questions. You may not agree with all the answers but your head will be spinning by the time you reach the last page. [via]More editions of The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science:
Universe Next Door : Twelve Revolutionary Ideas from the Cutting Edge of Scienceby Marcus ChownISBN 0747235287 (0-7472-3528-7)
Softcover, Headline Book Publishing
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Warum Gott doch würfeltby Marcus ChownISBN 3423244844 (3-423-24484-4)
Softcover
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