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" Rocket science for the rest of us : "
written by Ben Gilliand ; consultant, Jack Challoner.
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BL
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753322
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b573283
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written by Ben Gilliand ; consultant, Jack Challoner.
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Rocket science for the rest of us : : cutting-edge concepts made simple\ written by Ben Gilliand ; consultant, Jack Challoner.
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First American edition
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New York, New York : DK Publishing, 2015. ©2015
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192 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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1465433651
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: 9781465433657
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Includes index.
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Mysterious universe. How big is the universe? --; The star that redrew the cosmos --; Expanding universe --; Welcome to the multiverse --; We are all doomed! --; Catch up with the stellar speed demons --; Meet the smelly dwarf --; Mercury's secrets --; How to catch a comet --; Saturn's amazing rings --; The search for alien life --; The hostile blue planet --; The space rock that "killed" Pluto --; To boldly go. The first human in space --; Pioneer 10 : the little spacecraft that could --; Voyager : our distant emissary --; Is there life on Mars? --; Colonizing Mars --; Mapping the Milky Way --; Detecting killer asteroids --; Looking beyond Mars for life --; A Webb to catch the oldest stars --; ESA's Rosetta comet chaser --; Gravity lensing to see the cosmos --; Engage warp drive! --; Space : the fatal frontier --; The appliance of science. It is only a theory --; Why does anything exist? --; Leap second --; A weird, almost perfect universe --; What is dark matter? --; Why is gravity so weak? --; Dark matter builds the universe --; We are all made of stars --; The story of the pulsar --; Doing the black hole twist --; Helium shortage --; Death rays from outer space --; Gravity slingshot --; Is glass a liquid? --; Curiosity : science's heart --; Teeny tiny, supersmall stuff. The story of the atom --; Discovering the neutron --; The world of the insanely tiny --; The certainty of uncertainty --; Seeking supersymmetry --; Higgs boson : a bluffer's guide --; Quantum gravity --; X-ray crystallography --; Particle accelerators --; Attack of the micro black holes.
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Want to understand black holes, antimatter, physics, and space exploration? Looking for a common sense guide to quantum physics that you can actually understand? Rocket Science for the Rest of Us is the book you're looking for! Get a grip on even the most mysterious and complex sciences with Ben Gilliland's guide to dark matter, exo-planets, Planck time, earth sciences, and more.
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Outer space -- Exploration -- Popular works.
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Quantum theory -- Popular works.
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Rockets (Aeronautics) -- Popular works.
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TL782.5W758 9999
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Ben Gilliland
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Jack Challoner
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