The zoomable universe : an epic tour through cosmic scale, from almost everything to nearly nothing

Author

Caleb A Scharf

Call Numbers

• J 523.1 SCHA (CEN, OSH)
• 523.1 S3112 TEEN (OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Physical Description

xi, 206 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Summary

Astrobiologist Caleb Scharf and artist Ron Miller take us on an epic tour through all known scales of reality, from the largest possible magnitude to the smallest. Drawing on cutting-edge science, they begin at the limits of the observable universe, a scale spanning 10^27 meters -- about 93 billion light-years. And they end in the subatomic realm, at 10^-35 meters, where the fabric of space-time itself confounds all known rules of physics. In between are galaxies, stars and planets, oceans and continents, plants and animals, microorganisms, atoms, and much, much more.

Contents

• Almost everything
• Darkness and light
• The slow, the fast, and the fantastic
• Planets, planets, planets
• A world we call Earth
• Being conscious in the cosmos
• From many to one
• The undergrowth
• The emptiness of matter
• It's full of...fields
• From nearly nothing to almost everything.