Eight Improbable Possibilities

Eight Improbable Possibilities
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Publisher : Icon Books
Total Pages : 135
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ISBN-10 : 9781785787362
ISBN-13 : 1785787365
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Book Synopsis Eight Improbable Possibilities by : John Gribbin

Download or read book Eight Improbable Possibilities written by John Gribbin and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science. Echoing Sherlock Holmes' famous dictum, John Gribbin tells us: 'Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, is certainly possible, in the light of present scientific knowledge.' With that in mind, in his sequel to the hugely popular Six Impossible Things and Seven Pillars of Science, Gribbin turns his attention to some of the mind-bendingly improbable truths of science. For example: We know that the Universe had a beginning, and when it was – and also that the expansion of the Universe is speeding up. We can detect ripples in space that are one ten-thousandth the width of a proton, made by colliding black holes billions of light years from Earth. And, most importantly from our perspective, all complex life on Earth today is descended from a single cell – but without the stabilising influence of the Moon, life forms like us could never have evolved.


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