We Need To Talk About Kelvin

Name: We Need To Talk About Kelvin
Author: Marcus Chown
ISBN: 9780571255542

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#3537 of 3,809 books · #525 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize (2010).

Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you that the universe is orchestrated by chance. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger tells you that somewhere out in space there is furnace at a temperature of 4.5 billion degrees. Your TV tells you that the universe had a beginning. In fact, your very existence tells you that this may not be the only universe but merely one among an infinity of others, stacked like the pages of a never-ending book. Marcus Chown takes familiar features of the world we know and shows how they can be used to explain profound truths about the ultimate nature of reality. With Chown as your guide, cutting-edge science is made clear and meaningful by a falling leaf, or a rose, or a starry night sky. We Need To Talk About Kelvin: What Everyday Things Tell Us About The Universe is a hugely accessible exploration of quantum theory, relativity, cosmology, biology and chemistry. Taking our everyday experiences, Marcus Chown quickly and painlessly explains the ultimate truths of reality.

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