Rocket science for the rest of us: cutting-edge concepts made simple
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New York, New York : DK, 2015.
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Book
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First American edition.
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192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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Want to understand black holes, antimatter, physics, and space exploration? Looking for a common sense guide to quantum physics that you can actually understand? Rocket Science for the Rest of Us is the book you're looking for! Get a grip on even the most mysterious and complex sciences with Ben Gilliland's guide to dark matter, exo-planets, Planck time, earth sciences, and more.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Gilliland, B., & Challoner, J. (2015). Rocket science for the rest of us: cutting-edge concepts made simple. First American edition. New York, New York, DK.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Gilliland, Ben and Jack. Challoner. 2015. Rocket Science for the Rest of Us: Cutting-edge Concepts Made Simple. New York, New York, DK.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Gilliland, Ben and Jack. Challoner, Rocket Science for the Rest of Us: Cutting-edge Concepts Made Simple. New York, New York, DK, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Gilliland, Ben. and Jack Challoner. Rocket Science for the Rest of Us: Cutting-edge Concepts Made Simple. First American edition. New York, New York, DK, 2015.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Mysterious universe. How big is the universe? -- The star that redrew the cosmos -- Expanding universe -- Welcome to the multiverse -- We are all doomed! -- Catch up with the stellar speed demons -- Meet the smelly dwarf -- Mercury's secrets -- How to catch a comet -- Saturn's amazing rings -- The search for alien life -- The hostile blue planet -- The space rock that "killed" Pluto -- To boldly go. The first human in space -- Pioneer 10 : the little spacecraft that could -- Voyager : our distant emissary -- Is there life on Mars? -- Colonizing Mars -- Mapping the Milky Way -- Detecting killer asteroids -- Looking beyond Mars for life -- A Webb to catch the oldest stars -- ESA's Rosetta comet chaser -- Gravity lensing to see the cosmos -- Engage warp drive! -- Space : the fatal frontier -- The appliance of science. It is only a theory -- Why does anything exist? -- Leap second -- A weird, almost perfect universe -- What is dark matter? -- Why is gravity so weak? -- Dark matter builds the universe -- We are all made of stars -- The story of the pulsar -- Doing the black hole twist -- Helium shortage -- Death rays from outer space -- Gravity slingshot -- Is glass a liquid? -- Curiosity : science's heart -- Teeny tiny, supersmall stuff. The story of the atom -- Discovering the neutron -- The world of the insanely tiny -- The certainty of uncertainty -- Seeking supersymmetry -- Higgs boson : a bluffer's guide -- Quantum gravity -- X-ray crystallography -- Particle accelerators -- Attack of the micro black holes. | |
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9781465433657 (paperback), 1465433651 (paperback)
UPC:
790778033651
Notes
General Note
Includes index.
Description
Want to understand black holes, antimatter, physics, and space exploration? Looking for a common sense guide to quantum physics that you can actually understand? Rocket Science for the Rest of Us is the book you're looking for! Get a grip on even the most mysterious and complex sciences with Ben Gilliland's guide to dark matter, exo-planets, Planck time, earth sciences, and more.
