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Afterglow of Creation: Decoding the Message from the Beginning of Time by Marcus Chown
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Category: Science
Stephen Hawking described it as 'the discovery of the century, if not of all time', yet the scientists who first detected the cosmic radiation that was identified as the afterglow of the big bang had to admit that it was more by accident than intention. At first its discoverers mistook the readings for ...Show more
Breakthrough by Marcus Chown
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Category: Science
The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power. 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one has ever known before? And why is mathematics so good at revealing n ...Show more
Magic Furnace by Chown Marcus
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Category: Science
Marcus Chown's extraordinary account of how scientists unravelled the mystery of atoms and helped to explain the dawn of life is one of the greatest detective stories in the history of science. In fact, it is two puzzles intertwined: The origin of atoms, and the origin of stars. Neither story could be t ...Show more
Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You - A Guide to the Universe by Marcus Chown
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Category: Science
The two towering achievements of modern physics are quantum theory and Einstein's general theory of relativity. But, almost a century after their advent, most people haven't the slightest clue what either is about. Did you know that there's so much empty space inside matter that the entire human race co ...Show more
The Never-ending Days of Being Dead: Dispatches from the Front Line of Science by Marcus Chown
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Category: Science
In Chown's most ambitious book to date he sets out to answer some of the most provocative questions of today: Where did we come from? What the hell are we doing here? Is Elvis alive and kicking in another space domain? What's beyond the edge of the Universe? Did aliens build the stars? Can we live forev ...Show more
We Need to Talk About Kelvin: What Everyday Things Tell Us About the Universe by Marcus Chown
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Category: Science
Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger tells you that somewhere out in space there is furnace at a temperature of 4.5 billion degrees. Your TV tells you that the universe had a beginning. ...Show more
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