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Everything from quarks to galactic superclusters delivered to your eyeballs at the speed of light (any faster would be impossible)Take a tour of the wonder and majesty of the universe, from the smallest subatomic particles to the possibility of infinite universes. According to some prominent physicists, it's possible that, right now, someone who looks just like you is reading the back of a book just like this one in a parallel universe. And your double thinks it looks really interesting...Whether you're a fan of Scientific American's wildly popular 60-Second Science Podcast or just curious about science, you're going to want to dust off your Dad's telescope and warm up your particle accelerator after enjoying the same bite-sized knoweldge in The Instant Egghead Guide to the Universe.

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Offers lucid commentary on the landmark works Special Relativity and General Relativity which deal, respectively, with high-speed motion and gravity, revealing the extent to which Einstein revolutionized man's ideas about the universe. Reprint.

An inspirational journey to the realms of science, art, knowledge, and emotion explores the extraordinary correlations between everyday life and the universe and the metaphors that are contained within it, including the hidden galactic core that is self-knowledge, and shares insights into how to embrace the hidden power of the cosmos. Reprint.

Product Description: In light of the barrage of popular books on physics and cosmology, one may question the need for another. Here, two books especially come to mind: Steven Weinberg's The First Three Minutes, written 12 years ago, and the recent best-seller ABriefHistory of Time by Stephen Hawking...read more

Explains, in layman's terms, recent discoveries in physics, astronomy, and cosmology and the implications of these breathtaking advances in man's knowledge of the universe