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The Universe as It Really Is - Earth, Space, Matter, and Time (Hardcover)
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The Universe as It Really Is - Earth, Space, Matter, and Time (Hardcover)
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The universe that science reveals to us can seem far outside the
comfort zone of the human mind. Subjects near and far open up
dizzying vistas, from the infinitesimal to the colossal. Humanity,
the unlikely product of uncountable coincidences on unimaginable
scales, inhabits a tumultuous universe that extends from our
immediate environs to the most distant galaxies and beyond. But
when the mind balks at the vertiginous complexity of the universe,
science unveils the elegance amid the chaos. In this book, Thomas
R. Scott ventures into the known and the unknown to explain our
universe and the laws that govern it. The Universe as It Really Is
begins with physics and the building blocks of the universe-time,
gravity, light, and elementary particles-and chemistry's ability to
explain the interactions among them. Scott, with the assistance of
James Lawrence Powell, next tours the earth and atmospheric
sciences to explain the forces that shape our planet and then takes
off for the stars to describe our place in the cosmos. He provides
vivid introductions to our collective scientific inheritance,
narrating discoveries such as the shape of the atom and the nature
of the nucleus or how we use GPS to measure time and what that has
to do with relativity. A clear demonstration of the power of
scientific reasoning to bring the incomprehensible within our
grasp, The Universe as It Really Is gives an engrossing account of
just how much we do understand about the world around us.
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