The two towering achievements of modern physics are quantum theory and Einstein's general theory of relativity. Together, they explain virtually everything about the world we live in. But, almost a century after their advent, most people haven't the slightest clue what either is about. Did you know that there's so much empty space inside matter that the entire human race could be squeezed into the volume of a sugar cube? Or that you grow old more quickly on the top floor of a building than on the ground floor? And did you realise that 1 percent of the static on a TV tuned between stations is a relic of the Big Bang?
- ISBN13 9780571235452
- Publish Date 1 November 2007
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 8 January 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English