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Big Bang: A Ladybird Expert Book Marcus Chown

Big Bang: A Ladybird Expert Book By Marcus Chown

Big Bang: A Ladybird Expert Book by Marcus Chown


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Big Bang: A Ladybird Expert Book Summary

Big Bang: A Ladybird Expert Book: Discover how the universe began by Marcus Chown

What really happened in the Big Bang? Learn from the experts in the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES

The Big Bang is an accessible, authoritative introduction for anyone looking to understand how the universe came to be.

The greatest discovery in the history of science is that the universe has not existed forever but was born. There was a day without a yesterday . . .

Written by award-winning writer and former astrophysicist Marcus Chown, The Big Bang details how 13.82 billion years ago all matter, energy, space - and even time - erupted into being in a titanic fireball.

This mind-bending book addresses the big questions: What was the Big Bang? What drove the Big bang? And what happened before the Big Bang?

Inside you'll discover:
- What Einstein missed
- Why the universe is expanding
- The elements that made up the Big Bang
- Where the universe came from
- And much more . . .

The evidence for the Big Bang, it turns out, is all around us...

Learn about other topics in the Ladybird Experts series including Gravity, Quantum Physics, Climate Change and Evolution.

Written by the leading lights and most outstanding communicators in their fields, the Ladybird Expert books provide clear, accessible and authoritative introductions to subjects drawn from science, history and culture. For an adult readership, the Ladybird Expert series is produced in the same iconic small hardback format pioneered by the original Ladybirds. Each beautifully illustrated book features the first new illustrations produced in the original Ladybird style for nearly forty years.

Big Bang: A Ladybird Expert Book Reviews

The artwork is gloriously retro, echoing the original Ladybird house style but containing completely up to date information. * Shiny New Books *

About Marcus Chown

Marcus Chown is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Formerly a radio astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he is cosmology consultant of New Scientist. His books include The Ascent of Gravity, What A Wonderful World, Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You, Felicity Frobisher and the Three-Headed Aldebaran Dust Devil, and We Need to Talk to Kelvin, which was short-listed for the 2010 Royal Society Book Prize. Marcus has also tried his hand at Apps and won The Bookseller Digital Innovation of the Year for Solar System for iPad.

Marcus was a regular guest on the BBC4 comedy-science show, It's Only A Theory, with Andy Hamilton and Reginald D. Hunter, and often appears on Channel 4's Sunday Brunch. Marcus lives in London with his wife, a Macmillan nurse. Whereas she does a very socially useful job, Marcus writes about things that are of absolutely no use to man or beast! Can time run backwards? Are there an infinity of universes playing out all possible histories? Was our Universe made as a DIY experiment by extraterrestrials in another universe?

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GOR009237555
9780718187842
0718187849
Big Bang: A Ladybird Expert Book: Discover how the universe began by Marcus Chown
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Penguin Books Ltd
20180322
56
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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