Tweeting the Universe: Tiny Explanations of Very Big Ideas

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ISBN-10:

0571295703

ISBN-13:

9780571295708

Author(s): MARCUS CHOWN
Edition: Main
Released: Mar 07, 2013
Publisher: Faber&Faber
Format: Paperback, 0 pages
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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-03-07 Pages: 336 Language: English Publisher: Faber Faber In 140 pages. two masterly popularisers present 140 explanations of the biggest questions in physics - in the form of 10 or so tweets per page They set. themselves the challenge of boiling down what is essential on each subject into sentences of 140 characters. and the results are both entertaining and brilliantly informative. Not a word is wasted. The reader is not patronized and learns something on every page. If only all science writing could be so precise and so economical.Only science writers of a very high calibre could achieve such compression Marcus Chown -. the finest cosmology writer of our day (Matt Ridley) -. has known the Dutch writer Govert Schilling for twenty years Schilling pioneered this very swift form of explanation in a Dutch newspaper. and suggested to Chown that they co...

























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