This book will blow your mind : journey to the extremes of science / Frank Swain

By:

Swain, Frank [editor]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : New Scientist, c2018Description: 321 pages ; 20 cmISBN:

9781473628649

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

Q 173 .B66 2018

Contents:

1. Seventeen impossible things before breakfast -- 2. You are not who you think you are -- 3. Life at the extremes -- 4. The threadbare fabric of reality -- 5. It's a mad, mad, mad, mad universe -- 6. At the limits of imagination -- 7. A practical guide to blowing your mind.

Summary: What's the nature of reality? Does the universe ever end? What is time and does it even exist? These are the biggest imagination-stretching, brain-staggering questions in the universe - and here are their fascinating answers. Filled with counterintuitive stories and factoids you can't wait to share, as well as lots of did-you-knows and plenty of how-did-we-ever-not-knows, this new book from the bestselling New Scientist series will blow your mind - and then put it back together again. You don't need a spaceship to travel to the extremes of science. You just need this book.

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What's the nature of reality? Does the universe ever end? What is time and does it even exist? These are the biggest imagination-stretching, brain-staggering questions in the universe - and here are their fascinating answers. Filled with counterintuitive stories and factoids you can't wait to share, as well as lots of did-you-knows and plenty of how-did-we-ever-not-knows, this new book from the bestselling New Scientist series will blow your mind - and then put it back together again. You don't need a spaceship to travel to the extremes of science. You just need this book.

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