The matchbox that ate a forty-ton truck : what everyday things tell us about the universe
題名:
The matchbox that ate a forty-ton truck : what everyday things tell us about the universe
著者:
Chown, Marcus
ISBN（國際標準書號）:
9780865479227
版本:
1st ed.
出版資訊:
New York : Faber and Faber, 2010
規格:
xiii, 269 p. ; 22 cm
一般附註:
Includes bibliographical references and index
內容:
The face in the window -- Why atoms rock and roll all over the place -- No more than two peas in a pod at a time -- We need to talk about Kelvin -- You, me and the spectacularly unlikely triple-alpha process -- The 4.5-billion-degree furnace -- The unutterable feebleness of starlight -- The bang before the Big One -- The Humpty Dumpty tendency -- Random reality -- Earth's full, go home.
摘要:
An introduction to cosmology instructs readers on how to recognize cosmic qualities in the everyday world, from the paradoxical size of atoms versus light waves to the ways in which television static reflects the origins of the universe.
主題:
| Cosmology -- Popular works |
| Physics -- Popular works |
| Science -- Popular works |
摘要:
An introduction to cosmology instructs readers on how to recognize cosmic qualities in the everyday world, from the paradoxical size of atoms versus light waves to the ways in which television static reflects the origins of the universe.