Eight Improbable Possibilities

The Mystery of the Moon, and Other Implausible Scientific Truths

Eight Improbable Possibilities
John Gribbin
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Hardback
h198 x 129mm - 160pg
7 Oct 2021 UK
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9781785787355
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A 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.
John Gribbin' s numerous bestselling books include In Search of Schroedinger' s Cat and Six Impossible Things, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize. He has been described as ' one of the finest and most prolific writers of popular science around' by the Spectator.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781785787355
Published: 7 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Icon Books
Publisher: Icon Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 160

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