Rocket science for the rest of us cutting-edge concepts made simple
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 Gil...
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New York, New York :
DK Publishing,
2015.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Mysterious universe. How big is the universe?
- The star that redrew the cosmos
- Expanding universe
- Welcome to the multiverse
- We are all doomed!
- Catch up with the stellar speed demons
- Meet the smelly dwarf
- Mercury's secrets
- How to catch a comet
- Saturn's amazing rings
- The search for alien life
- The hostile blue planet
- The space rock that "killed" Pluto
- To boldly go. The first human in space
- Pioneer 10 : the little spacecraft that could
- Voyager : our distant emissary
- Is there life on Mars?
- Colonizing Mars
- Mapping the Milky Way
- Detecting killer asteroids
- Looking beyond Mars for life
- A Webb to catch the oldest stars
- ESA's Rosetta comet chaser
- Gravity lensing to see the cosmos
- Engage warp drive!
- Space : the fatal frontier
- The appliance of science. It is only a theory
- Why does anything exist?
- Leap second
- A weird, almost perfect universe
- What is dark matter?
- Why is gravity so weak?
- Dark matter builds the universe
- We are all made of stars
- The story of the pulsar
- Doing the black hole twist
- Helium shortage
- Death rays from outer space
- Gravity slingshot
- Is glass a liquid?
- Curiosity : science's heart
- Teeny tiny, supersmall stuff. The story of the atom
- Discovering the neutron
- The world of the insanely tiny
- The certainty of uncertainty
- Seeking supersymmetry
- Higgs boson : a bluffer's guide
- Quantum gravity
- X-ray crystallography
- Particle accelerators
- Attack of the micro black holes.
