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Cover subtitle: A fascinating journey through scientific discovery
'Explains, in a simple and entertaining way, many of the discoveries of science that have shaped our world'--Back cover
Topics include: gravity; Occam's Razor; Galileo; the curvature of space; 'Eureka'; nuclear energy; Kardashev Civilisations; general relativity; exponential growth; germ warfare; escape velocity; black holes; space flight; the 'dirty' bomb; future computers; time dilation; wave motion; the red shift; depleted uranium; Nemesis; antimatter; the 'wow' signal; star flight; global warming; the human genome