Boom!
The Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, and Earthly Mayhem that Shook our Universe
1st Edition
Published on 7. March 2019
320 pages
978-1-78607-598-7 (ISBN)
Description
Looking at the night sky, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's all quiet up there in space. But you'd be wrong. Extreme events are forever unfolding: galaxies explode, cosmic debris hurtles through the heavens and our own Milky Way is on a collision course with the giant Andromeda galaxy.
Mayhem moulded the cosmos, shaped life on Earth and at times threatened to end it. With an enduring sense of wonder, through cataclysms great and small, Bob Berman presents a destructive history of our universe.
Mayhem moulded the cosmos, shaped life on Earth and at times threatened to end it. With an enduring sense of wonder, through cataclysms great and small, Bob Berman presents a destructive history of our universe.
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'Blithely engaging, a glittering planetarium that is...a stage for astonishing and unnerving spectacles... I greatly admire [Berman's] ability to lucidly explain astrophysics to the nonscientist. The brio that he brings to cosmic havoc makes much of Boom! a delicious guilty pleasure.' * <i>Wall Street Journal</i> * 'Fascinating, terrifying and entertaining in equal measure, this is an expert guide to the deadliest hazards in the universe, on Earth and beyond.' -- Paul Parsons, science journalist and author 'This lively menagerie of astrophysical oddities will entertain any reader who's ever wondered what the biggest, most dangerous "bangs" in the universe might be.' * <i>Publishers Weekly</i> * 'Berman writes with verve and vigour...a pleasing excursion into the hows and whys of how the universe - our universe, anyway - took shape and how it works - except when it doesn't.' * <i>Kirkus</i> *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
File size
4,61 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78607-598-7 (9781786075987)
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Bob Berman
Boom!
The Violent Supernovas, Galactic Explosions, and Earthly Mayhem that Shook our Universe
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03/2019
Oneworld Publications
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Bob Berman is a leading astronomy writer and the author of Zapped, Zoom and The Sun's Heartbeat. He contributed the popular 'Night Watchman' column for Discover for seventeen years and is currently a columnist for Astronomy, a host on Northeast Public Radio and science editor of The Old Farmer's Almanac. He lives in Willow, New York.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Author's Note
- PART I: CATACLYSMS IN THE HEAVENS
- CHAPTER 1: Cataclysms 101
- CHAPTER 2: It Really Was a Big Bang
- CHAPTER 3: The Death of Cousin Theia
- CHAPTER 4: Spooky Things That Went Bang
- CHAPTER 5: Blame It on the Supernova
- CHAPTER 6: Armageddon Monument
- CHAPTER 7: Tycho Versus Kepler: Dueling Detonations
- CHAPTER 8: When Galaxies Collide
- CHAPTER 9: Magnetic Violence
- CHAPTER 10: The Lethal Antimatter Fountain
- CHAPTER 11: Dangerous Bubbles
- CHAPTER 12: The Exploding Galaxy Next Door
- CHAPTER 13: Waiting for a Carrington Cataclysm
- CHAPTER 14: Can We Trust Space Itself ?
- CHAPTER 15: The Final Supernova
- CHAPTER 16: The 2017 Kilonova
- PART II: CATACLYSMS OF EARTH
- CHAPTER 17: The Oxygen Holocaust
- CHAPTER 18: The Greatest Mass Extinction
- CHAPTER 19: The Dino Saur Show Gets Canceled
- CHAPTER 20: Snowball Earth
- CHAPTER 21: The Plague
- CHAPTER 22: Just the Flu
- CHAPTER 23: The Second World War
- CHAPTER 24: Nuclear Cataclysms
- CHAPTER 25: A New State Capital?
- CHAPTER 26: Secrets of Chernobyl
- CHAPTER 27: The Hybrid Cataclysm
- CHAPTER 28: That Thermonuclear Business
- CHAPTER 29: Modern Meteors and Flipping Poles
- CHAPTER 30: When It Sure Seemed Like the Apocalypse
- CHAPTER 31: Invading Our Bodies Today
- PART III: TOMORROW'S CATACLYSMS
- CHAPTER 32: Collision with Andromeda
- CHAPTER 33: Upcoming Cataclysms
- CHAPTER 34: Holocene Extinction
- CHAPTER 35: The Sun Has the Last Word
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
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