bill bryson a history of nearly everything

To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -and, if possible, answer -the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -well, most of it. Английский язык.One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey-into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. National Geographic Magazine (2000 - 2009 гг.).IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.Solid state physics Quantum theory Chemical bonds SCIENCE Physics Condensed Matter Física do estado sólido Mecânica quântica.Wilderness and Third World Medicine Forum.In their company, he undertakes a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge.

How do we know what is in the center of the earth, thousands of miles beneath the surface? How can we know the extent and the composition of the universe, or what a black hole is? How can we know where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? On his travels through space and time, Bill Bryson encounters a splendid gallery of the most fascinating, eccentric, competitive, and foolish personalities ever to ask a hard question. His interest is not simply to discover what we know but to find out how we know it. His challenge is to take subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and see if there isn't some way to render them comprehensible to people, like himself, made bored (or scared) stiff of science by school. To that end, Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host of the world's most profound scientific minds, living and dead. In this book Bill Bryson explores the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer and attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization.

Bill bryson a history of nearly everything