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Chown, Marcus.
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Cosmology -- Popular works.
Physics -- Popular works.
Science -- Popular works.
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The matchbox that at...
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The matchbox that ate a forty-ton truck : what everyday things tell us about the universe / Marcus Chown.
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Chown, Marcus.
New York : Faber and Faber, 2010.
Subjects
Cosmology -- Popular works.
Physics -- Popular works.
Science -- Popular works.
ISBN:
9780865479227 (alk. paper)
0865479224 (alk. paper)
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xiii, 269 p. ; 22 cm.
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1st American ed.
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.
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An introduction to cosmology instructs readers on how to recognize cosmic qualities in the everyday world, from the paradoxical size of atoms versus light waves to the ways in which television static reflects the origins of the universe.
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