
Eight Improbable Possibilities
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- Intro
- Praise for Six Impossible Things
- Praise for Seven Pillars of Science
- Title Page
- Contents
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Epigraph
- PREFACE: What Do We Know?
- IMPROBABILITY 1: The Mystery of the Moon
- IMPROBABILITY 2: The Universe Had a Beginning, and We Know When it Was
- IMPROBABILITY 3: The Expansion of the Universe is Speeding Up
- IMPROBABILITY 4: We Can Detect Ripples in Space Made by Colliding Black Holes
- IMPROBABILITY 5: Newton, the Bishop, the Bucket, and the Universe
- IMPROBABILITY 6: Simple Laws Make Complicated Things, or Little Things Mean a Lot
- IMPROBABILITY 7: All Complex Life on Earth Today is Descended From a Single Cell
- IMPROBABILITY 8: Ice Age Rhythms and Human Evolution: People of the Ice
- Further Reading
- Also by John Gribbin
- Copyright
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