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A dazzling exploration of the universe and our relationship to it, as seen through the lens of today's most cutting-edge scientific thinking.
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Nonfiction, Science, Philosophy, Popular works, Cosmology, History, Science, history, Science, philosophyShowing 9 featured editions. View all 9 editions?
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You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe
2010, Knopf Canada
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0676978630 9780676978636
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You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe
2010, Penguin Random House
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0099502429 9780099502425
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You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe
2009, HarperCollins Publishers
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0061776165 9780061776168
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You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe
2009, HarperCollins Publishers
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0061776173 9780061776175
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You are here: a portable history of the universe
2009, HarperCollins
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0061137863 9780061137860
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You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe
2009, HarperCollins Publishers
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0061973173 9780061973178
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You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe
2009, HarperCollins Publishers
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006177619X 9780061776199
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You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe
2009, HarperCollins Publishers
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0061776181 9780061776182
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You Are Here is a dazzling exploration of the universe and our relationship to it, as seen through the lens of today's most cutting-edge scientific thinking. Christopher Potter brilliantly parses the meaning of what we call the universe. He tells the story of how something evolved from nothing and how something became everything. What does a material description of everything and nothing look like? What is it that science does when it describes a reality that is made out of something? In between nothing and everything is where we live. Here, for the first time in a single span, is the life of the universe, from quarks to galaxy superclusters and from slime to Homo sapiens. The universe was once a moment of perfect symmetry and is now 13.7 billion years of history. Clouds of gas were woven into whatever complexity we find in the universe today: the hierarchies of stars or the brains of mammals. Potter writes entertainingly about the history and philosophy of science, and he shows that science advances by continually removing humankind from a position of primacy in the universe, but the universe responds by placing us back there again.With wisdom and wonder, Potter traverses the cosmos from its conception to its eventual end — while exploring everything in between.
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