Almost Everyone's Guide to Science
The Universe, Life and Everything
by Mary Gribbin; John R. Gribbin
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9780300084603,
Paperback,
Yale Univ Pr,
2000
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9780300081015,
Hardcover,
Yale Univ Pr,
1999
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Publisher Notes
Gribbon speaks to those who are interested in science but are scared off by the technical detail, in a broad picture of scientific achievement at the end of the 20th century.
Media Reviews
"In 220 pages of text, John Gribbin, a prolific writer of books about science, along with his wife, Mary, has given away all our secrets (well, a lot of them anyway)....We scientists are specialists, and Gribbin is a generalist of impressive proportions....[He] is a very dependable guide, to nearly all of science, for almost everyone."
Excerpt
The planet-forming process would have started even before the central ball of gas that was to become the Sun had got hot enough to ignite nuclear fusion. Tiny pieces of dust which were in the original cloud would have stuck together to make little fluffy grains a few millimetres across, and these grains would have collided with one another and stuck together to make still larger grains. In the early stages of this process, the grains would have been immersed in gas, constantly bombarded by molecules of gas in the collapsing cloud, and these collisions would have ensured that angular momentum was shared out, with the material settling into a disc around the proto-Sun.
First Line
The fate of specialists in any one area of science is to focus more narrowly on their special topic, learning more and more about less and less, until eventually they end up knowing everything about nothing.
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