The Zoomable Universe

Caleb Scharf, Ron Miller (Illustrator)

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Author
Caleb Scharf, Ron Miller (Illustrator)
Publish Date
2017-10-17
Subtitle
An Epic Tour Through Cosmic Scale, from Almost Everything to Nearly Nothing
Book Type
Hardcover
Number of Pages
206
Publisher Name
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
ISBN-10
0374715718
ISBN-13
9780374715717
citemno
261463
Subject
Sciences
Edition
1
SKU
9780374715717

Description

Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf and artist Ron Miller take us on an epic tour through all known scales of reality, from the largest possible magnitude to the smallest. Drawing on cutting-edge science, they begin at the limits of the observable universe, a scale spanning 10 27 meters -- about 93 billion light-years. And they end in the subatomic realm, at 10 -35 meters, where the fabric of space-time itself confounds all known rules of physics. In between are galaxies, stars and planets, oceans and continents, plants and animals, microorganisms, atoms, and much, much more.