From Atoms to Infinity 88 Great Ideas in Science
"How big is infinity? How small is an electron? When will the Sun destroy the Earth? How fast is a nerve impulse in your brain? Why can't you see inside a black hole? What's the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth? What's the furtherest you can see on a clear night? "From atoms to infinity' takes you on a journey from the furtherest reaches of the known Universe to the tiniest particles that make up life on Earth. With their characteristic flair and unrivalled clarity, world-renowned science authors Mary and John Gribbin explore how our telescopes can see 10 billion years into the past, and why a thimbleful of a neutron star would contains as much mass as all the people on Earth put together. Incredible and thought-provoking, this is a trip at break-neck speed from the infinitesimal to the vast - everything you always wanted to know about science's most amazing discoveries." -- back cover.
ScienceHistoryReference
RELEASED2006
PUBLISHERIcon Books, Limited
LENGTH189
LANGUAGEEN
Mary Gribbin works in education in East Sussex and writes books about science for children. She won The TES Junior Information Book Award for her book Time and the Universe, and has written a series of books for Ladybird. She has also worked with John Gribbin on Being Human, Ice Age, and major biographies of Richard Feynman and Robert FitzRoy, as well as the "in 90 minutes" series of mini-biographies of Galileo, Newton, Halley, Faraday, Darwin, Mendel, Curie, and Einstein.-GoodReads
From Atoms to Infinity 88 Great Ideas in Science
"How big is infinity? How small is an electron? When will the Sun destroy the Earth? How fast is a nerve impulse in your brain? Why can't you see inside a black hole? What's the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth? What's the furtherest you can see on a clear night? "From atoms to infinity' takes you on a journey from the furtherest reaches of the known Universe to the tiniest particles that make up life on Earth. With their characteristic flair and unrivalled clarity, world-renowned science authors Mary and John Gribbin explore how our telescopes can see 10 billion years into the past, and why a thimbleful of a neutron star would contains as much mass as all the people on Earth put together. Incredible and thought-provoking, this is a trip at break-neck speed from the infinitesimal to the vast - everything you always wanted to know about science's most amazing discoveries." -- back cover.
ScienceHistoryReference
RELEASED2006
PUBLISHERIcon Books, Limited
LENGTH189
LANGUAGEEN
Mary Gribbin works in education in East Sussex and writes books about science for children. She won The TES Junior Information Book Award for her book Time and the Universe, and has written a series of books for Ladybird. She has also worked with John Gribbin on Being Human, Ice Age, and major biographies of Richard Feynman and Robert FitzRoy, as well as the "in 90 minutes" series of mini-biographies of Galileo, Newton, Halley, Faraday, Darwin, Mendel, Curie, and Einstein.-GoodReads
