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Title: Almost Everyone's Guide to Science: The Universe, Life and Everything by John R. Gribbin, Mary Gribbin ISBN: 0300081014 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Book
Comment: I really enjoyed reading this book. Especially the end where it discusses planets, space, and how everything came together. It's amazing how much we puny humans can figure out about a star half way across the galaxy.
The one thing that held this book back from getting a perfect 5/5, is the fact that it had _no_ pictures to help explain the concepts. This was very annoying, but it does force the reader to visualize concepts in his/her head.
Over all, I would recommend this book to "Almost Everyone" interested in science.
Rating: 5
Summary: I haven't read it yet...
Comment: I haven't read this book yet but if it is as good as all the other books of his I've read, I'll definately enjoy it. John is on my list of must buy authors.
Rating: 4
Summary: Book Review No. 32
Comment: This is a best-seller by an eminent scientist who doesn't believe the world is goverened by magic or the supernatural.He presents scientific evidence that everything is coherent and fits together. Gribbin starts with the smallest particle and goes to the birth of the universe including the origin of our species. This is an ambitious, never-tried-before book. It is breathtaking in scope.Don't bother to read it if you don't have a healthy curiosity or the patience to put up with complicated scientific concepts. And don't worry about not understanding all of it; what you do understand will stagger you.
Interesting ideas: People are the most complex systems in the known universe. No two are exactly alike. Studies confirm tha tNinety-eight per cent of the DNA in human beings, gorillas and chimpanzees is the same...the differences tha tmake us uniquely human amount to a little over one per cent. We are one per cent human and roughly 99 per cent ape.
If our planet were the size of a basketball, the thickness of the breathable atmosphere would be no more than one quarter of a millimeter, a barely noticeable 6-mile-high smear over the surface of the ball. The Earth is a ball of rock covered by a thin smear of atmosphere and ocean.
In about ten billion years the Sun will cool into a solid lump. About 440 billion years ago there was a massive extinction of life on earth. Stray pieces of cosmic debris still collide with planets and one impact contributed to the death of dinosaurs about 65 million years ago.
Fine-particle scientists predict the existence of different kinds of particles from anything we have seen yet. They have not been detected, but have been given names such as photonios. This class of objects is referred to as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles or WIMPs because they have mass, but don't interact very strongly with everyday matter.Astronometers and Particle Scientists would like to detect these mysterious particles directly and this may happen within the next few years. Models suggest we are swimming in a sea of WIMPs, possibly a plausible explanation of the so-called spirit world.
This work is a monumental job of setting down that which, in scientific circles, is called the "Theory of Everything" (TOE) for all to understand. Gribbin has summed up the last 400 years of scientific thinking on where we came from, and where we are going, if that is of interest to you.
Jim Grubb [email protected]
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Title: In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality by John Gribbin ISBN: 0553342533 Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap) Pub. Date: November, 1985 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Q Is for Quantum : An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics by John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin, Jonathan Gribbin ISBN: 0684863154 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Stardust: Supernovae and Life --- The Cosmic Connection by John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin ISBN: 0300090978 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe by John R. Gribbin ISBN: 0300089147 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality by John Gribbin ISBN: 0316328197 Publisher: Little Brown & Co (Pap) Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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