Michael Brooks

13 Things That Don't Make Sense

The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Is 96 percent of the universe missing? Was the 1977 signal from outer space a transmission from an alien civilization? This book presents thirteen modern-day anomalies that may become tomorrow's breakthroughs. Spanning fields from chemistry to cosmology, psychology to physics, it captures the excitement and controversy of the scientific unknown.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Profile Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 185g
• ISBN-13: 9781861976475
• ISBN-10: 186197647X
• Artikelnr.: 27369154

Autorenporträt

Michael Brooks is the author of the bestselling non-fiction title 13 Things That Don't Make Sense and Free Radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science. He holds a PhD in quantum physics, is a consultant at New Scientist and writes a weekly column for the New Statesman

Rezensionen

Fascinating ... Brooks reawakens us to the astonishing fact of our mere existence, the strangeness of the world around us, and the astonishing amount that science has yet to discover Christopher Hart Sunday Times