How to make an apple pie from scratch : in search of the recipe for our universe
Cliff, Harry (Harry Victor)2021
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We all know what an apple pie is made of: flour and apples and butter. They are made of fats and cholesterol and proteins. They, in turn, are made of molecules of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen and other chemical elements. But what are they made of? If we are truly to understand something as everyday and ordinary as an apple pie, we will in the end not only need to know what are the constituents of the chemical elements, but what fundamental matter the universe is made of, what banged in the Big Bang, and how matter arose from nothing into the world in which we live. Inspired by Sagan's famous line, Harry Cliff begins his exploration of the nature of the universe by burning an apple pie to see what he can learn of its chemical makeup.
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Author:
Cliff, Harry (Harry Victor), author
Imprint:
London : Picador, 2021.
Collation:
400 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781529026191 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
539.72
Language:
English
BRN:
1292253
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