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A comprehensive explanation of the human body and the galaxy enables readers to visualize difficult-to-perceive concepts, defines confusing terms, and chronicles time from the "Big Bang" to the end of the universe. Original.
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Concepts about time, space, and the workings of the universe are exceedingly difficult to grasp. For many readers, mathematics does little to dispel confusion, so Packard has put together a series of visual images to illustrate the relationship between outer space and microspace, light-years and micrometers. Using comparisons, a very basic form of relativity, and clever drawings and diagrams, Packard helps us visualize the immensity of space by picturing the earth shrunk to the size of a baseball park so that he can lay out the center of the solar system on a global map, making the distances between planets more comprehensible. The sun is reduced to a grain of sand, and so on, until we have some frame of reference for imagining the vastness of the universe. Then Packard goes in the opposite direction and expands a baseball to the size of the earth so that molecules are visible; to make atoms visible, he pictures a baseball large enough to reach from the earth to the moon. This rather elegant pictorial method works just as well when Packard creates time lines that equate time and distance on different scales. Donna Seaman
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- PublisherPerigee Trade
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0399521240
- ISBN 13 9780399521249
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages154
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