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Eight Improbable Possibilities - The Mystery of the Moon and Other Implausible Scientific Truths

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'Gribbin casts a wide net and displays his breadth of knowledge in packing a lot into each chapter . . . a brief read, but one that may inspire readers to dig deeper.' Giles Sparrow, BBC Sky at Night MagazineA mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science.Echoing Sherlock Holmes' famous dictum, John Gribbin tells us: 'Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, is certainly possible, in the light of present scientific knowledge.' With that in mind, in his sequel to the hugely popular Six Impossible Things and Seven Pillars of Science, Gribbin turns his attention to some of the mind-bendingly improbable truths of science. For example:We know that the Universe had a beginning, and when it was - and also that the expansion of the Universe is speeding up. We can detect ripples in space that are one ten-thousandth the width of a proton, made by colliding black holes billions of light years from Earth.And, most importantly from our perspective, all complex life on Earth today is descended from a single cell - but without the stabilising influence of the Moon, life forms like us could never have evolved.

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Authors John Gribbin
Publisher Icon Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 01.02.2023
 
EAN 9781785789793
ISBN 978-1-78578-979-3
No. of pages 130
Dimensions 129 mm x 197 mm x 14 mm
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)

Science: general issues, popular science, SCIENCE / General, SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics

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