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Chown, Marcus.

The universe next door : the making of tomorrow's science / Marcus Chown. - Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. - xii, 191 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-182) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Part One: The Nature of Reality -- 1 Unbreak My Heart 3 -- 2 I'm Gonna Live Forever 15 -- 3 Dividing the Indivisible 34 -- 4 All the World's a Time Machine 45 -- 5 Tales from the Fifth Dimension 59 --Part Two: The Nature of the Universe 73 -- 6 The Holes in the Sky 75 -- 7 Looking-Glass Universe 84 -- 8 The Universe Next Door 97 -- 9 Was the Universe Created by Angels? no -- Part Three: Life and the Universe 121 -- 10 The Worlds between the Stars 123 -- 11 The Life Plague 132 -- 12 Alien Garbage 148.

0195168844

2001036400


Physics--Popular works.
Cosmology--Popular works.
Life on other planets--Popular works.

QC24.5 / .C47 2002

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