The Edge of Tomorrow
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- Synopsis
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When high-energy physics meets quiet revenge, is the result murder?
Can three mathematicians disagree on a basic principle of science—and all be right?
The foremost scientific writer of our age takes us on a marvelous tour—from the wondrous nature of our home world to the very edge of the universe, from Archimedes to the distant future.
Here are fascinating true tales of the search for new worlds and invisible stars, of the mystery of the planet that should have been there—but wasn’t. And here too is mind-widening science fiction, examining the startling, and sometimes tragic, consequences of new ideas. An experiment in time travel becomes a test of morality—and love; a college professor finds a loophole in the law of gravity, and soon wishes he hadn’t; and apparently trivial inventions produce shock waves that could shatter the very foundations of human society.
THE EDGE OF TOMORROW combines fact and fiction to provide a wide-angle view of science as an inspiring, frustrating, astonishing—and always intensely human—enterprise.
- Copyright:
- 1985
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 464 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780312932008
- Publisher:
- Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
- Date of Addition:
- 02/20/02
- Copyrighted By:
- Nightfall, Inc.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare.org Volunteer
- Proofread By:
- Yurulain Jaafar
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.