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What a Wonderful World: One Man's Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff
Why do we breathe? What is money? How does the brain work? Why did life invent sex? Does time really exist? How does capitalism work - or not, as the case may be? Where do mountains come from? How do computers work? How did humans get to dominate the Earth? Why is there something rather than nothing...
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London
Faber and Faber,
2013
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目次:
- Part 1. How we work. Cells
- Respiration
- Evolution
- Sex
- The brain
- Human evolution
- Part 2. Putting matter to work. Civilisation
- Electricity
- Computers
- Money
- Capitalism
- Pasrt 3. Earth works. Geology
- The atmosphere
- Part 4. Deep workings. Thermodynamics
- Quantum theory
- Special relativity
- General relativity
- Atoms
- Time
- The laws of physics
- Part 5. The cosmic connection. Cosmology
- Black holes.