How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch
In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe
(Sprache: Englisch)
To make an apple pie, one first needs to build a universe. A brilliantly accessible introduction to today's physics by a young academic and educator.
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To make an apple pie, one first needs to build a universe. A brilliantly accessible introduction to today's physics by a young academic and educator.
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'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe' - Carl SaganInspired by Sagan's famous line, How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch sets out on a journey to unearth everything we know about our universe: how it started, how we found out, and what we still have left to discover . . .
'Witty, approachable and captivating' - Robin Ince
'A fascinating exploration of how we learned what matter really is' - Sean Carroll
Will we ever be able to understand the very first moments of the world we inhabit? What is matter really made of? How did anything survive the fearsome heat of the Big Bang?
In pursuit of answers, we meet the scientists, astronomers and philosophers who brought us to our present understanding of the world - offering readers a front-row seat to the most dramatic journey human beings have ever embarked on.
TED Talk speaker and academic Harry Cliff's How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch is an essential, fresh and funny guide to how we got to where we are now - and what we have to come.
'A delightfully fresh and accessible approach to one of the great quests of science' - Graham Farmelo
'Lays out not just what we know, but how we found out (and what is left to be discovered' - Katie Mack
Autoren-Porträt von Harry Cliff
Harry Cliff is a particle physicist based at the University of Cambridge and was a curator at the Science Museum in London for seven years. He regularly gives public lectures and makes TV and radio appearances. His 2015 TED talk 'Have We Reached The End Of Physics?' has been viewed over 2.5 million times. He lives in London.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Harry Cliff
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2022, Main Market Ed., 400 Seiten, Maße: 14,4 x 20,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Picador
- ISBN-10: 1529026210
- ISBN-13: 9781529026214
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.06.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Cliff's engaging and personable writing style, along with his infectious enthusiasm, follows in the best traditions of Feynman and Sagan . . . a page-turner. Jim Al-Khalili
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