The Resource Black hole survival guide, Janna Levin
Black hole survival guide, Janna Levin
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The item Black hole survival guide, Janna Levin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Lewisville Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "From the acclaimed author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space--an authoritative, wholly accessible, fascinating guide to the most challenging phenomena of contemporary science, which is now the anchor of our understanding of the cosmos. Throughout her career, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused, alongside her research, on making the science she studies not just accessible, but, perhaps more important, intriguing to the nonscientist. And that is what she has done again here, helping us to understand the black hole: perhaps the most opaque theoretical construct ever imagined by physicists. She explains how their existence came to be proven decades after they were first predicted in Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity. And she explores the ways in which what we know about them has changed our most basic understanding of the galaxy, the universe, the whole expanse of reality that we inhabit. Lively, engaging and utterly unique, Black Hole Survival Guide is not just informative. It is as well, a wonderful read from first to last"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 143 pages
- Contents
-
- Entrance
- Space
- Horizon
- Nothing
- Time
- Tardis
- Perfection
- Astrophysics
- Evaporation
- Information
- Hologram
- Firewalls
- Exit
- Isbn
- 9780525658221
- Label
- Black hole survival guide
- Title
- Black hole survival guide
- Statement of responsibility
- Janna Levin
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "From the acclaimed author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space--an authoritative, wholly accessible, fascinating guide to the most challenging phenomena of contemporary science, which is now the anchor of our understanding of the cosmos. Throughout her career, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused, alongside her research, on making the science she studies not just accessible, but, perhaps more important, intriguing to the nonscientist. And that is what she has done again here, helping us to understand the black hole: perhaps the most opaque theoretical construct ever imagined by physicists. She explains how their existence came to be proven decades after they were first predicted in Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity. And she explores the ways in which what we know about them has changed our most basic understanding of the galaxy, the universe, the whole expanse of reality that we inhabit. Lively, engaging and utterly unique, Black Hole Survival Guide is not just informative. It is as well, a wonderful read from first to last"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Citation location within source
-
- November 01, 2020
- October 01, 2020
- September 15, 2020
- September 07, 2020
- Citation source
-
- Library Journal
- Booklist
- Kirkus Reviews
- Publishers Weekly
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Levin, Janna
- Dewey number
- 523.8/875
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- QB843.B55
- LC item number
- L48 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Black holes (Astronomy)
- Black holes (Astronomy)
- Astronomy
- Label
- Black hole survival guide, Janna Levin
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Entrance -- Space -- Horizon -- Nothing -- Time -- Tardis -- Perfection -- Astrophysics -- Evaporation -- Information -- Hologram -- Firewalls -- Exit
- Control code
- BRD2020015159
- Dimensions
- 17 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 143 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525658221
- Lccn
- 2020015159
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1141154507
- Label
- Black hole survival guide, Janna Levin
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Entrance -- Space -- Horizon -- Nothing -- Time -- Tardis -- Perfection -- Astrophysics -- Evaporation -- Information -- Hologram -- Firewalls -- Exit
- Control code
- BRD2020015159
- Dimensions
- 17 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 143 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525658221
- Lccn
- 2020015159
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1141154507
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