Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: A Guide To The Universe

Author: Marcus Chown

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Price : 29.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780571315024
Publisher : Faber & Faber, Limited
Imprint : Faber & Faber, Limited
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Weight (g) : 0.178
Publication date : 01 July 2014
Dimensions : 198mm X 126mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Language : English
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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 could be squeezed into the volume of a sugar cube? Or that you grow old more quickly on the top floor of a building than on the ground floor? Marcus Chown explains all with characteristic, wit, colour and clarity.

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The perennial bestseller: Big science explained in a beautifully clear and entertaining way by the popular cosmologist.

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Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is currently cosmology consultant of the weekly science magazine New Scientist. He is the author of the bestselling Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, The Never Ending Days of Being Dead and The Magic Furnace. He also wrote The Solar System, the bestselling app for iPad, which won the Future Book Award 2011. Marcus Chown has also written a work for children, Felicity Frobisher and the Three-Headed Aldebaran Dust Devil.

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