El libro del Big Bang

Explore the everyday miracle of the microscopic world With spectacular macro photography and microscope images, this book reveals a hidden, living world full of intricate structures beyond the naked eye. Included are the tiniest insects and spiders; but looking deeper, you will discover truly microscopic creatures--even bacteria and viruses. Earth is home to more microbes, and more different types of microbes, than any other living organism. Bacteria on Earth outweigh humans by 1,100 to 1; and without them, all world ecosystems would collapse. This book reveals this vital, unseen realm, but...

Comprender el vacío ha sido una de las aventuras más apasionantes del conocimiento humano. Desde los tiempos más antiguos, la idea de estudiar algo que no existe entusiasmó a filósofos y científicos. Aristóteles acuñó el término horror vacui para referirse al hecho de que la naturaleza intenta llenar todo el espacio disponible. La física ha ido desafiando esta visión, y el concepto de vacío ha evolucionado desde una entelequia hasta una tecnología capaz de mover millones de euros. Gracias a ello disponemos hoy en día de alimentos que se conservan mejor, luz eléctrica, nuevos...

Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore -- there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson team up to explore everything we don't know about the universe, and while introducing the biggest mysteries in physics, they also helpfully demystify many complicated things we do know. And although the universe is full of weird things that don't make any sense, Cham and Whiteson make a case that the questions we can't answer are as interesting as the ones we can, and they invite...

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.