The most difficult is the nonintuitive material-time as part of space, say, or proteins inventing themselves spontaneously, without direction-and the quantum leaps unusual minds have made: as J.B.S. The aim is to deliver reports on these subjects in terms anyone can understand, and for the most part, it works. So he goes exploring, in the library and in company with scientists at work today, to get a grip on a range of topics from subatomic particles to cosmology. Piqued by his own ignorance on these matters, he’s egged on even more so by the people who’ve figured out-or think they’ve figured out-such things as what is in the center of the Earth. Bryson ( I'm a Stranger Here Myself, 1999, etc.), a man who knows how to track down an explanation and make it confess, asks the hard questions of science-e.g., how did things get to be the way they are?-and, when possible, provides answers.Īs he once went about making English intelligible, Bryson now attempts the same with the great moments of science, both the ideas themselves and their genesis, to resounding success.
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