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cutting-edge concepts made simple
By Ben Gilliland
"Rocket science for the rest of us" was published in 2015 - nyu, it has 192 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Rocket science for the rest of us” Metadata:
- Title: ➤ Rocket science for the rest of us
- Author: Ben Gilliland
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 192
- Publish Date: 2015
- Publish Location: nyu
“Rocket science for the rest of us” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Dark matter (Astronomy) - Exploration - Rockets (Aeronautics) - Quantum theory - Earth sciences - Popular works - Dark matter (astronomy) - Outer space, exploration - Rockets (aeronautics)
- Places: Outer space
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: 192 pages
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL27187322M - OL20007235W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 881041218
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2015297118
- ISBN-13: 9781465433657
- ISBN-10: 1465433651
- All ISBNs: 1465433651 - 9781465433657
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"Rocket science for the rest of us" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Mysterious universe. How big is the universe?
- 2- The star that redrew the cosmos
- 3- Expanding universe
- 4- Welcome to the multiverse
- 5- We are all doomed!
- 6- Catch up with the stellar speed demons
- 7- Meet the smelly dwarf
- 8- Mercury's secrets
- 9- How to catch a comet
- 10- Saturn's amazing rings
- 11- The search for alien life
- 12- The hostile blue planet
- 13- The space rock that "killed" Pluto
- 14- To boldly go. The first human in space
- 15- Pioneer 10 : the little spacecraft that could
- 16- Voyager : our distant emissary
- 17- Is there life on Mars?
- 18- Colonizing Mars
- 19- Mapping the Milky Way
- 20- Detecting killer asteroids
- 21- Looking beyond Mars for life
- 22- A Webb to catch the oldest stars
- 23- ESA's Rosetta comet chaser
- 24- Gravity lensing to see the cosmos
- 25- Engage warp drive!
- 26- Space : the fatal frontier
- 27- The appliance of science. It is only a theory
- 28- Why does anything exist?
- 29- Leap second
- 30- A weird, almost perfect universe
- 31- What is dark matter?
- 32- Why is gravity so weak?
- 33- Dark matter builds the universe
- 34- We are all made of stars
- 35- The story of the pulsar
- 36- Doing the black hole twist
- 37- Helium shortage
- 38- Death rays from outer space
- 39- Gravity slingshot
- 40- Is glass a liquid?
- 41- Curiosity : science's heart
- 42- Teeny tiny, supersmall stuff. The story of the atom
- 43- Discovering the neutron
- 44- The world of the insanely tiny
- 45- The certainty of uncertainty
- 46- Seeking supersymmetry
- 47- Higgs boson : a bluffer's guide
- 48- Quantum gravity
- 49- X-ray crystallography
- 50- Particle accelerators
- 51- Attack of the micro black holes.
"Rocket science for the rest of us" Description:
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Want to understand black holes, antimatter, physics, and space exploration? Looking for a common sense guide to quantum physics that you can actually understand? Rocket Science for the Rest of Us is the book you're looking for! Get a grip on even the most mysterious and complex sciences with Ben Gilliland's guide to dark matter, exo-planets, Planck time, earth sciences, and more.
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