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Imminent Science: What Remains to be Discovered
Giovanni F. Bignami
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Description for Imminent Science: What Remains to be Discovered
Paperback. This book looks at innovations that will change our lives by the year 2062. It covers a wide variety of scientific topics of great interest to the general public, from astrophysics to genetics to robotics to clean energy. Num Pages: 102 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 182 x 236 x 7. Weight in Grams: 180.
This is not science fiction. It’s a voyage on the arrow of time to the coming fifty years. The legendary palindromic character Mr. Qfwfq from Italo Calvino’s collection of short stories, The Cosmicomics, will go with us – he who knows all the answers but will give out no hints. He will help us to discover the innovations that will have changed our lives by 2062, when, riding astride Halley’s Comet, our omniscient extraterrestrial will return to visit us.In this book, we shall learn how astronomers will devote themselves to the study of the mysterious force of dark energy, which ... Read more
This is not science fiction. It’s a voyage on the arrow of time to the coming fifty years. The legendary palindromic character Mr. Qfwfq from Italo Calvino’s collection of short stories, The Cosmicomics, will go with us – he who knows all the answers but will give out no hints. He will help us to discover the innovations that will have changed our lives by 2062, when, riding astride Halley’s Comet, our omniscient extraterrestrial will return to visit us.In this book, we shall learn how astronomers will devote themselves to the study of the mysterious force of dark energy, which ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer Verlag Italy
Number of pages
180
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
180g
Number of Pages
102
Place of Publication
Milan, Italy
ISBN
9788847053519
SKU
V9788847053519
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About Giovanni F. Bignami
Prof. Giovanni Fabrizio Bignami, born in Desio, Italy in 1944, is one of Europe's leading researchers in astrophysics. He is a former Director of Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements in Toulouse and is currently Head of the Italian Institute for Astrophysics and President of COSPAR, the world-wide Committee on Space Research. He is also President of The National Institute for ... Read more
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