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Zoom - From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees

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Informationen zum Autor Bob Berman , one of America's top astronomy writers, is the author of Zapped, Zoom and The Sun's Heartbeat . He contributed the popular "Night Watchman" column for Discover for seventeen years and is currently a columnist for Astronomy , a host on Northeast Public Radio, and the science editor of The Old Farmer's Almanac . He lives in Willow, New York. Klappentext From the speed of light to moving mountains-and everything in between-ZOOM explores how the universe and its objects move. If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room! you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents still waft around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. And the planet you sit on is whizzing through space 35 times faster than the speed of sound. Zusammenfassung From the speed of light to moving mountains -- and everything in between -- Zoom explores how the universe and its objects move. If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. In fact, the planet you are sitting on is whizzing through space thirty-five times faster than the speed of sound. Natural motion dominates our lives and the intricate mechanics of the world around us. In Zoom , Bob Berman explores how motion shapes every aspect of the universe, literally from the ground up. With an entertaining style and a gift for distilling the wondrous, Berman spans astronomy, geology, biology, meteorology, and the history of science, uncovering how clouds stay aloft, how the Earth's rotation curves a home run's flight, and why a mosquito's familiar whine resembles a telephone's dial tone. For readers who love to get smarter without realizing it, Zoom bursts with science writing at its best. ...

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Authors Bob Berman
Publisher Little Brown USA
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 03.08.2015
 
EAN 9780316217392
ISBN 978-0-316-21739-2
No. of pages 323
Dimensions 138 mm x 209 mm x 23 mm
Series Little, Brown and Company
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)

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