What would you see if your vision could encompass as expanse of one billion light years? Or if you could peer inside the microscopic realm of the a...
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Apr 12, 2010
Becky
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Just as cool as I remember. This book may change the way you look at the world!
Jul 11, 2007
Brian
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There is a lot more to this book, but the crux of it is a progressive series of images taken from the original movie. You start way off in space, and the each subsequent image shows an area of 10% the size. By the end, you are zooming deep into the nucleus of an atom. It blew my mind when I was a little kid, and it still does today. I doubt any book could ever hope to capture, in such a simple way, the extent to which modern science has totally transformed our understanding of everyday existence
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Oct 06, 2009
Martha
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All the way in and all the way out in pix--turns out they look the same. Brilliant idea, endlessly fascinating.
Apr 05, 2008
Rob
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A fun little classic little science book. It's about the size of things. And our units of measurement. For adults it hopefully impresses that right sense of scale. (When you start at 10^26 meters, you can get an idea of how infinitely small you are.) I want to share this with my child some day.
Aug 07, 2008
I wrote a 'book report' for math class on this in high school and in the opening sentence unwittingly used the word "astronomical" to which my dry-humored teacher wrote largely something to the effect of that being a pun, or just rewrote the word largely across the top, exclamation point.
Feb 14, 2008
Joan
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This book starts out with imagery of the universe and slowly backs down by powers of ten to the smallest image available. This is an incredible book if you have any interest in science and the universe as we see it.
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