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The edge of the sky : all you need to know about the all-there-is / Roberto Trotta.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trotta, Roberto, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cosmology--Popular works.
- Cosmology.
- Astronomy--Popular works.
- Astronomy.
- Genre:
- Popular works.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 85 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2014]
- Summary:
- From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries and mysteries in modern cosmology--with a twist. The book's lexicon is limited to the thousand most common words in the English language, excluding physics, energy, galaxy, or even universe. Through the eyes of a fictional scientist (Student-People) hunting for dark matter with one of the biggest telescopes (Big-Seers) on Earth (Home-World), cosmologist Roberto Trotta explores the most important ideas about our universe (All-there-is) in language simple enough for anyone to understand.
- Contents:
- The first night
- The crazy stars
- A bigger place
- The big flash
- Dark rain
- Whispers from the dark
- Death by fire
- The dark push
- Is the all-there-is all there is?
- When the sun comes up.
- ISBN:
- 9780465044719
- 0465044719
- OCLC:
- 869266691
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