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_aTyson, Neil deGrasse _910612 |
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_aDeath by black hole : _band other cosmic quandaries / _cNeil deGrasse Tyson |
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_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton, _cc2007. |
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_a384 p. ; _c22 cm. |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [363]-368) and indexes. | ||
| 505 | _aPrologue: The beginning of science -- Coming to our senses -- On Earth as in the heavens -- Seeing isn't believing -- The information trap -- Stick-in-the-mud science -- Journey from the center of the Sun -- Planet parade -- Vagabonds of the solar system -- The five points of Lagrange -- Antimatter matters -- The importance of being constant -- Speed limits -- Going ballistic -- On being dense -- Over the rainbow -- Cosmic windows -- Colors of the cosmos -- Cosmic plasma -- Fire and ice -- Dust to dust -- Forged in the stars -- Send in the clouds -- Goldilocks and the three planets -- Water, water -- Living space -- Life in the universe -- Our radio bubble -- Chaos in the solar system -- Coming attractions -- Ends of the world -- Galactic engines -- Knock 'em dead -- Death by black hole -- Things people say -- Fear of numbers -- On being baffled -- Footprints in the sands of science -- Let there be dark -- Hollywood nights -- In the beginning -- Holy wars -- The perimeter of ignorance. | ||
| 520 | _aAccording to astrophysicist Tyson, director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium, size does matter when it comes to black holes, although the chances of your surviving the encounter aren't good in any case. Tyson takes readers on an exciting journey from Earth's hot springs, where extremophiles flourish in hellish conditions, to the frozen, desolate stretches of the Oort Cloud and the universe's farthest reaches, | ||
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_aBlack holes (Astronomy) _910613 |
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_aCosmology _910614 |
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_aExobiology _910615 |
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_aReligion and science _910616 |
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