Zoom: How Everything Moves: From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (568 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316217409 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the speed of light to moving mountains--and everything in between--ZOOM explores how the universe and its objects move.If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. In ZOOM, Bob Berman explores how motion shapes every aspect of the universe, literally from the ground up. But air currents are still wafting around you. With an entertaining style and a gift for distilling the wondrous, Berman spans astronomy, geology, biology, meteorology, and the history of science, uncovering how clouds stay aloft, how the Earth's rotation curves a home run's flight, and why a mosquito's familiar whine resembles a telephone's dial tone.For readers who love to get smarter without realizing it, ZOOM bursts with science writing at its best.. Blood rushes through your veins. In fact, the planet you are sitting on is whizzing through space thirty-five times faster than the speed of sound.Natural motion dominates our lives and the intricate mechanics of the world around us
"Bill Bryson writing style but science" according to Creatics. Love this book, but this is coming from someone thrilled by minutia and trivial bits of science such as distances and temperatures. If you're the type of reader that enjoys Bill Bryson when he dabbles into a home's history, then you'll find Berman's book equally enjoyable for the science end. Same style of writing, and equally filled with tons and tons of readable facts that will stagger your imagination. Worth getting, even as a few years have passed since i. A must for your library. cisco I am a graduate engineerthis book is the best (everyday) explanation of physical eventsphysics,.speed, light,chemistry etc .that I have ever read. Read it!. ZOOM is the Highway to the Universe Victor Mazmanian A witty and clever and most accurate account of motion in our universe.Berman leaves no stone unturned.Some errors exist, but they concern the science purists and do not diminish the impact of the message.He is gentle with his delivery and puts the reader at ease and reduces anxiety to a low level.The personal anecdotes add a delightful diversion from the tedious and scary atmosphere of science exposure.
Along the way, Berman humanizes his facts with appearances by such famous scientists as Edwin Hubble and Leonardo da Vinci and gives readers an absorbing education in how much our very lives depend on ceaseless motion. In fact, “we are embedded in a magical matrix of continuous motion,” opines veteran science writer Berman (The Sun’s Heartbeat, 2011) in this fascinating look at the built-in dynamism of our universe. Drawing on the cosmology expertise he displayed in his Discover columns, Berman starts with the big bang, the primal explosion that set everything in motion at the beginning, from whirling electrons to ever-expanding space itself. --Carl Hays . He then wor
He lives in Willow, New York. . He is currently a columnist for Astronomy, a host on Northeast Public Radio, and the science editor of The Old Farmer's Almanac. Bob Berman, one of America's top astronomy writers, contributed the popular "Night Watchman" column for Discover for seventeen years