Powers of Ten (Revised) (Scientific American Library Paperback)
Philip Morrison; Phylis Morrison
Language: English
Published by Scientific American Library, 1994
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- Title
- Powers of Ten (Revised) (Scientific American Library Paperback)
- Author
- Philip Morrison; Phylis Morrison
- Publisher
- Scientific American Library
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0716760088
- ISBN 13
- 9780716760085
- Item weight
- 1 pound
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Starting with a view of a billion light-years, the book (like the film) moves inward, with each page being at one-tenth the scale of the previous one. In 25 steps, you're looking at a picnic by the shores of Lake Michigan, then plunging into a human hand, down through the cells inside it, the DNA inside the cells, the atoms inside the DNA, and the subatomic particles inside the atom. By the time you've gone a total of 40 steps, you're in a world of quantum uncertainty.
There is no better guide to the relative sizes of things in the universe, and no better teacher about what exponential, scientific notation really means. --Mary Ellen Curtin
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