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020 $a9780199681198 (hbk.)
020 $a0199681198 (hbk.)
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100 1 $aSmith, Timothy Paul,$d1960-$eauthor.
245 10 $aHow big is big and how small is small :$bthe sizes of everything and why /$cby Timothy Paul Smith.
264 1 $aOxford, UK ;$aNew York, NY :$bOxford University Press,$c2013.
300 $avi, 256 pages :$billustrations (black and white) ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aThis book is about how big is the universe and how small are quarks, and what are the sizes of dozens of things between these two extremes. It describes the sizes of atoms and planets, quarks and galaxies, cells and sequoias. It is a romp through forty-five orders of magnitude from the smallest sub-nuclear particles we have measured, to the edge of the observed universe. It also looks at time, from the epic age of the cosmos to the fleeting lifetimes of ethereal particles. It is a narrative that trips its way from stellar magnitudes to the clocks on GPS satellites, from the nearly logarithmic scales of a piano keyboard through a system of numbers invented by Archimedes and on to the measurement of the size of an atom.
505 0 $aMachine generated contents note: 1.From Quarks to the Cosmos: An Introduction -- 2.Scales of the living World -- 3.Big Numbers; Avogadro's Number -- 4.Scales of Nature -- 5.Little Numbers; Boltzmann's and Planck's Constants -- 6.The Sand Reckoner -- 7.Energy -- 8.Fleeting Moments of Time -- 9.Deep and Epic Time -- 10.Down to Atoms -- 11.How Small Is Small -- 12.Stepping Into Space: the Scales of the Solar System -- 13.From the Stars to the Edge of the Universe -- 14.A Little Chapter about Truly Big Numbers -- 15.Forces That Sculpture Nature and Shape Destiny.
650 0 $aDimensions.
650 0 $aNuclear size (Physics)
650 0 $aBody size.
650 0 $aAdaptation (Biology)
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650 7 $aBody size.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00835387
650 7 $aDimensions.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00893853
650 7 $aNuclear size (Physics)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01040891
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988 $a20140911
906 $0OCLC