Zoom

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ISBN9781780745497
AuthorsBob Berman
PublisherOneworld Publications
FormatPaperback
Number of pages336
Weight (kg)0.320
Publishing Date02/10/2014
Price (excl. tax)€13.44
Tax€0.81
Price (incl. tax)€14.25
Availability6 units in external warehouse

Product Description

Sitting still in a quiet room, you might just be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents swirl about you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. And the planet you are on is whizzing through space 35 times faster than the speed of sound. In Zoom, Bob Berman takes a thrilling tour around the wondrous and myriad motions that shape every aspect of the universe. Spanning astronomy, geology, biology, meteorology and history, he explains how clouds stay aloft, how the earth’s rotation curves a ball’s flight, how a mosquito’s familiar whine is tuned to a perfect A sharp, how the day gets longer every century, and much more.