The matchbox that ate a forty-ton truck
what everyday things tell us about the universe
Book - 2010
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Faber and Faber,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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MARC
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The matchbox that ate a forty-ton truck : |b what everyday things tell us about the universe / |c Marcus Chown. |
| 250 | |a 1st American ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Faber and Faber, |c 2010. | ||
| 300 | |a xiii, 269 p. ; |c 22 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a Originally published in 2009 by Faber and Faber, Great Britain, as: We need to talk about Kelvin : what everyday things tell us about the universe. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Cosmology |v Popular works. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Physics |v Popular works. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Science |v Popular works. | |
| 998 | |a 2010.05.28 | ||
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