A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Bryson)
At the same time, our connection to the universe is exhilarating. In the 1980s, the astronomer Carl Sagan coined the phrase “we are all star stuff ” to call attention to the fact that all atoms were formed from stardust as the universe cooled after the Big Bang. All of our human stardust heritage, as well as that of every object that has ever exist
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Series)
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Numbers, techniques, and predictions are useful for suggesting, testing, confirming, and putting discoveries to use. But there is nothing technical about the content of the discoveries. The universe does not revolve around the Earth. All the matter that surrounds us is just made up of protons, electrons, and neutrons. There are one hundred billion
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