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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A heart-pumping exploration of the biggest explosions in history, from the Big Bang to mysterious activity on Earth and everything in between. In Earth-Shattering, astronomy writer Bob Berman guides us through an epic, all-inclusive investigation into these instances of violence both mammoth and microscopic.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Michio Kaku, renowned theoretical physicist and author of Hyperspace and The Future of Humanity, tells the story of the greatest quest in science. When Newton discovered the laws of motion and gravity, he unified the rules of heaven and earth. From then on, physicists have been discovering new forces and incorporating them into ever-greater theories. But the major breakthroughs of the 20th century--relativity and quantum mechanics--are incompatible,...
8) The big bang
Author
Publisher
W.H. Freeman
Pub. Date
[1989]
Edition
Revised and updated edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 485 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
10) Big history
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (442 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A collection that turns history on its head, breaks down the walls between history and science, and tells the story of the universe form the Big Bang through today. Crisscrossing through time and space, each episode reveals the transformative relationships between science and history that viewers many not have even knew existed.
13) Big bang
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
45 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the Big Bang theory of how the universe may have begun.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was . . . nothing. But then . . . BANG! Stars caught fire and burned so long that they exploded, flinging stardust everywhere. And the ash of those stars turned into planets. Into our Earth. And into us. In a poetic text, Marion Dane Bauer takes readers from the trillionth of a second when our universe was born to the singularities that became each one of us, while vivid illustrations...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
viii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
Tony Rothman offers a primer on the science of the big bang and the questions we still can't answer about the origins of the universe. Enlisting thoughtful analogies and a step-by-step approach, Rothman guides readers through dark matter, dark energy, quantum gravity, and other topics at-and beyond-the cutting edge of cosmology.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Da Capo Press edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 280 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
In this journey of scientific exploration, the authors consider some of the most fundamental questions about our Earth, Sun, and solar system--and the star-filled galaxies beyond. How big is our solar system? How quickly is space expanding? How big is the universe? What is it made of? Some of these questions can be answered on the basis of observations you can make in your own backyard. Other answers draw on the astonishing information now being gathered...
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