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Atom : An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond

By Lawrence M. Krauss

Book information

Publisher
Little, Brown
Year
2001
ISBN
0316499463, 9780316499460
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
1010 kB (1034373 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
320\0
Time added
2013-12-20 21:07:43

Description

Every atom in our bodies was once inside the fiery core of a star that exploded billions of years before our solar system was formed. Like the original Homeric epic, the atom at the center of this book makes its way across a truly cosmic stage. Exploding supernovas, solar winds, collapsing stars preceded the rise of life on earth and one day may foretell its end. Yet the story that Krauss tells is inextricably our story. Throughout this astonishing and monumental work, he manages to stoke our wonder at the powers and unlikely events that conspired to create our solar system, our eco-system and us.

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