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Author:

Chown, Marcus.

Title:

The matchbox that ate a forty-ton truck : what everyday things tell us about the universe / Marcus Chown.

Edition:

1st American ed.

Publisher:

Faber and Faber,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xiii, 269 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Cosmology--Popular works.
Physics--Popular works.
Science--Popular works.

Notes:

Originally published in 2009 by Faber and Faber, Great Britain, as We need to talk about Kelvin: What everyday things tell us about the universe. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The face in the window -- Why atoms rock and roll all over the place -- No more than two peas in a pod at a time -- We need to talk about Kelvin -- You, me and the spectacularly unlikely triple-alpha process -- The 4.5-billion-degree furnace -- The unutterable feebleness of starlight -- The bang before the Big One -- The Humpty Dumpty tendency -- Random reality -- Earth's full, go home.

ISBN:

0865479224 (alk. paper)
9780865479227 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)456171469

LCCN:

2009043082

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)