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The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms
Marcus Chown
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Description for The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms
Paperback. One of the greatest detective stories in the history of science reveals how astronomers and nuclear physicists deduced where the elements in our bodies come from. It is both the story of atoms and the story of stars. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ; PGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178.
Every atom in our bodies has an extraordinary history. Our blood, our food, our books, our clothes - everything contains atoms forged in blistering furnaces deep inside stars, which were blown into space by those stars' cataclysmic explosions and deaths. From red giants - stars so enormous they could engulf a million suns - to supernova explosions - the most violent events in the universe - the birth of every atom was marked by cosmic events on an enormous scale, against a backdrop of unimaginable heat and cold, brightness and darkness, space and time. But how did we discover ... Read more
Every atom in our bodies has an extraordinary history. Our blood, our food, our books, our clothes - everything contains atoms forged in blistering furnaces deep inside stars, which were blown into space by those stars' cataclysmic explosions and deaths. From red giants - stars so enormous they could engulf a million suns - to supernova explosions - the most violent events in the universe - the birth of every atom was marked by cosmic events on an enormous scale, against a backdrop of unimaginable heat and cold, brightness and darkness, space and time. But how did we discover ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099578017
SKU
V9780099578017
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Marcus Chown
Marcus Chown is New Scientist's cosmology consultant. He is the author of Afterglow of Creation, which was runner-up for the Rhône- Poulenc Science Book Prize, and was the winner of the 1994 Glaxo Wellcome ABSW Science Writers' Award.
Reviews for The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms
A clear introduction to a fascinating area of physics and astronomy. Chown is to be congratulated on a beautifully crafted book.
New Scientist
Keeps readers anxious for the next puzzle piece to fall into place. It reads like a Sherlock Holmes novel
Astronomy
The work of a literary alchemist who tranmutes the iron of complexity into ... Read more
New Scientist
Keeps readers anxious for the next puzzle piece to fall into place. It reads like a Sherlock Holmes novel
Astronomy
The work of a literary alchemist who tranmutes the iron of complexity into ... Read more