The matchbox that ate a forty-ton truck : what everyday things tell us about the universe /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Faber and Faber,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.