Extreme Science

Phil Clarke

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THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Extreme science is by no means new. There have always been men and women willing to spend their lives looking for answers to life's eternal questions. Indeed, ever since Daedalus built his soil, Icarus, a pair of wings out of feathers and wax, and then watched as he plummeted to his death, it has been seen as the scientist's lot to toil long, lonely hours, to battle madness, addiction and the condemnation of his contemporaries in search of that magical 'Eureka5 moment. For some, glory beckons. For many others, it is the bony fingers of failure and death. From the early shock waves made by Luigi Galvani and the electrical genius of Nikola Tesla we journey through time via LSD and mind control to the techno-world of robots and cyborgs, finally squeezing ourselves through the ultimate time portal of the Large Hadron Collider. We also analyze influential visions of a fictional future imagined in the past. From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and H.G. Wells' The Time Machine to modern-day classics such as Jurassic Tark and Back to the Future, we explore extreme science as it appeal's in books, film and television, in an attempt to unravel which came first - the science or the fiction? Extreme Science lifts the dustsheets of the past to explore the lives of people who pushed every possible boundary to get to the truth. Readers might find the content disturbing. However, all these bizarre experiments, and the scientists who performed them, have had a significant impact on the world in which we live. Not only that, but many have helped to shape the world we will be living in tomorrow.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Extreme Science
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good