How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch
In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe, from the Origins of Atoms to the Big Bang
Published on 10. August 2021
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-385-54565-5 (ISBN)
Description
"Carl Sagan famously said, 'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.' But what fundamental matter is the universe made of? What banged in the Big Bang? And how did that matter arise from nothing into the world we now know? In [this book], Harry Cliff--a University of Cambridge particle physicist, researcher on the Large Hadron Collider, and acclaimed science presenter--sets out in pursuit of answers"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
7 ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
722 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-385-54565-5 (9780385545655)
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Person
HARRY CLIFF is a particle physicist based at the University of Cambridge and carries out research with the LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. He was a curator at the Science Museum, London for seven years and regularly gives public lectures and makes TV and radio appearances. His 2015 TED talk "Have We Reached the End of Physics?" has been viewed more than 3 million times.