Marcus Chown Knihy

Je možné, že celé ľudstvo by sa mohlo vtesnať do priestoru veľkého ako kocka cukru? Mohla by explózia jediného komára vyhladiť život na Zemi? Čo všetko potrebujeme na zostrojenie stroja času? Aj na tieto otázky odpovedá obľúbený britský spisovateľ a popularizátor vedy Marcus Chown vo svojej knihe. Predstavuje 50 nesmierne zaujímavých, niekedy priam úžas vzbudzujúcich vedeckých faktov z oblasti biológie, antropológie, astronómie či fyziky, ktorými chce poukázať na výnimočnosť sveta, v ktorom žijeme. Aj tie najodbornejšie poznatky pritom podáva veľmi jednoducho, s nadhľadom a vtipom, čím z knihy plnej faktov robí dobrodružný príbeh objavovania zázrakov Zeme a vesmíru.

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.

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 two towering achievements of modern physics are quantum theory and Einstein's general theory of relativity. Together, they explain virtually everything about the world we live in. But, almost a century after their advent, most people haven't the slightest clue what either is about. Did you know that there's so much empty space inside matter that the entire human race could be squeezed into the volume of a sugar cube? Or that you grow old more quickly on the top floor of a building than on the ground floor? And did you realize that 1% of the static on a TV tuned between stations is the relic of the Big Bang? Marcus Chown, the bestselling author of What A Wonderful World and the Solar System app, explains all with characteristic wit, colour and clarity, from the Big Bang and Einstein's general theory of relativity to probability, gravity and quantum theory. 'Chown discusses special and general relativity, probablity waves, quantum entanglement, gravity and the Big Bang, with humour and beautiful clarity, always searching for the most vivid imagery.' Steven Poole, Guardian

An introduction to cosmology instructs readers on how to recognize cosmic qualities in the everyday world, from the paradoxical size of atoms versus light waves to the ways in which television static reflects the origins of the universe.

Dva zkušení autoři vědeckých publikací odpovídají na 140 největších otázek z oblasti fyziky, přičemž podstatu každé z nich shrnují do tweetů o 140 znacích. Marcus Chown a Govert Schilling nás vezmou na jedinečnou exkurzi po vesmíru. Mají odpovědi na všechno, počínaje základními úvahami – Proč je obloha v noci temná? Proč se hvězdy na noční obloze chvějí? – až po ty nejzáludnější – Co jsou kvasary? či Co předcházelo Velkému třesku? Některé otázky v této geniálně informativní publikaci se ukazují být stejně překvapivé jako odpovědi na ně. Je možné, že veškeré galaxie, které jsme pomocí dalekohledů schopni spatřit, nejsou ničím jiným než optickým klamem? Dalo by se na Saturnově měsíci Titanu plavat? Jak je možné, že se Měsíc nezřítí na Zemi? (Což, jak se ukáže, mimochodem není vůbec hloupá otázka.) A plaval by Saturn, kdybychom měli dost velkou nádrž s vodou?

Beginning with a fascinating overview and then organized by planet, in order of its distance from the sun, "Solar System" takes us on a trip across time and space that includes a front-row seat to the explosive birth of the solar system, a journey to (and then deep inside) each of its eight planets, and even an in-depth exploration of asteroids and comets

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.

'Entertaining and at times mind-boggling guide to the weakest of nature's fundamental forces, which also controls the fate of the universe' Manjit Kumar The Times