Marcus Chown is een gevierde schrijver en omroepman die uitblinkt in het vertalen van complexe kosmologische concepten naar toegankelijke taal. Zijn werk kenmerkt zich door een diepe nieuwsgierigheid en een passie voor het ontrafelen van de mysteries van het universum. Chown streeft ernaar ons begrip van onze plaats in de kosmos en de fundamentele wetten die deze regeren te verdiepen, en inspireert lezers met een gevoel van verwondering over de wetenschap.
In 1965 Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered the heat afterglow of the big bang. - How Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein in 1924 predicted the existence of a weird state of matter close to absolute zero in which trillions of atoms behave as a single entity.
This book is a collaborative publication that showcases a partnership with Touch Press, known for their innovative digital content such as The Elements and Solar System for iPad. It combines the expertise of Faber and Faber with engaging visuals and themes, aiming to enhance the reader's experience through a unique blend of technology and literature.
Can time run backwards? Can we live forever? Could our universe have been created as a DIY experiment by superior beings in another universe? These questions may sound crazy but they explore the limits of our current knowledge and highlight the key issues modern scientists are wrestling to understand. As Cosmology Consultant at the New Scientist, Marcus Chown often comes across ideas that leave his head spinning. In this hugely entertaining, accessible and mind-blowing book, he explores the ramifications of, as he puts it, science with the 'wow!' factor.
Marcus Chown's extraordinary account of how scientists unravelled the mystery of atoms, and helped to explain the dawn of life. It is one of the greatest detective stories in the history of science. In fact, it is two puzzles intertwined, for the stars contain the key to unlocking the secret of atoms, and the atoms the solution to the secret of stars.
The spellbinding stories of the scientists whose eureka! breakthroughs in modern physics reveal science's astonishing predictive power.
Bestselling author Marcus Chown explores some of the most profound and important science about us, our world and the universe with fifty fascinating and mind-bending facts.
Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? How does capitalism work - or not, as the case may be? Where do mountains come from? How do computers work? How did humans get to dominate the Earth? Why is there something rather than nothing? In 'What a Wonderful World', Marcus Chown uses his vast scientific knowledge and deep understanding of extremely complex processes to answer simple questions about the workings of our everyday lives.
The perennial bestseller: Big science explained in a beautifully clear and entertaining way by the popular cosmologist.
In Chown's most ambitious book to date he sets out to answer some of the most provocative questions of today:- Is Elvis alive and kicking in another space domain?- Will we ever find ET?- What's beyond the edge of the Universe?- Did aliens build the stars?- Can we live forever?
