Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth
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From the 18th century vicar who was the first to look up at the night’s sky and suggest there was something very dark and extraordinarily heavy that was moving the stars, to the first actual photograph of a black hole, 250 years later, Enander has travelled the world, visited telescopes and observatories, interviewed world-leading space researchers, and delved deep into the archives to investigate how our relationship with black holes has changed over time.
Throughout this journey, Enander explores how our desire to answer the question of the origin of the universe inadvertently led to the invention of WiFi and the calibration of GPS; how our looking outward gave us critical evidence of our impact on climate change that could be the key to the future of all humanity and how colonialism sparked the race for discovery, affecting those most vulnerable, creating a ripple effect being felt to this day.
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'Combines science with journalism to weave a captivating account of the most extraordinary objects in the universe: black holes. A superior account.' Marcus Chown
'Facing Infinity is an especially attractive introduction to a wonderfully attractive subject.' Frank Wilczek
Did you know that black holes are essential to life on Earth?
From GPS navigation to understanding climate change, these enigmatic objects shape our daily existence in ways you'd never imagine. In Facing Infinity, astrophysicist Jonas Enander takes us on an extraordinary journey from eighteenth-century Britain to cutting-edge observatories around the world, revealing how the universe's darkest phenomena illuminate both our origins and our future.
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| Weight | 401 g |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 19.8 × 12.9 cm |
| Book_author | Enander, Jonas |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
| Imprint | Atlantic Books |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 368 |
| Language | English |
| Dewey | 523.8875 (edition:23) |
| Readership | College – higher education / Code: F |
