The big questions in science : the quest to solve the great unknowns / Hayley Birch, Mun Keat Looi, Colin Stuart.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Metro Books, 2013Description: 192 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781435160910 (hardback)
- Quest to solve the great unknowns
- 500 23
- Q173 .B615 2013
- Cataloging Notes: 20241028 AMIU-151AMIU-151
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Includes index.
1. What is the Universe Made Of? -- 2. How did Life Begin? -- 3 .Are We Alone in the Universe? -- 4. What Makes Us Human? -- 5. What is Consciousness? -- 6. Why Do We Dream? -- 7. Why is There Stuff? -- 8. Are There Other Universes? -- 9. Where Do We put all The Carbon? -- 10. How Do We Get More Energy From The Sun? -- 11. What's So Weird About Prime Numbers? -- 12. Can Computers Keep Getting Faster? -- 13. When Can I Have a Robot Butler? -- 14. How Will We Beat Bacteria? -- 15. Will We Ever Cure Cancer? -- 16. What's at The Bottom of The Ocean? -- 17. What's at The Bottom of a Black Hole? -- 18. Can We Live Forever? -- 19. How Do We Solve The Population Problem? -- 20. Is Time Travel Possible?
What are the great scientific questions of our modern age and why don't we know the answers? This book takes on the most fascinating and pressing mysteries we have yet to crack and explains how tantalizingly close science is to solving them or how frustratingly out of reach they remain.
Cataloging Notes: 20241028 AMIU-151AMIU-151
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