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Cargando... The Stardust Revolution: The New Story of Our Origin in the Starspor Jacob Berkowitz
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Astrophysics is normally what people think of when they think of space science, but there is also astrochemistry, astrogeology and even astrobiology. This book highlights discoveries in these subjects and how they provide greater insight about how we and everything else owe our existence to stardust. It's a fascinating read. I recommend it. ( ) Excellent and thought-provoking read about the origins of all things--living and non-living. I had never thought about myself, or humankind in general, as being so connected to the entire cosmos, though I long ago understood that all the elements came from the stars, and therefore so do we, I never truly thought about the implications behind the fact. This book was wonderfully readable (ie. not too technical), while still being incredibly informative about the scientific discoveries and history involved. Highly recommended! _The Stardust Revolution: The New Story of Our Origin in the Stars_, by Jacob Berkowitz, Prometheus Books, 2012. First, the history of how it came to be known, many decades ago, that all the non-hydrogen atoms in living things were originally formed by stellar fusion processes. Second, interstellar dust, astrochemistry, and stardust geology as a bridging subject. Third, the point of view that any lifeforms inferred to exist on exoplanets will have to be regarded as the cosmically evolutionary cousins of those existing on Earth. All rather elaborately laid out in science-journalism style. (Linguistic nit-pickings: bad use of "protean"; bad spelling of "phosphorus".) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Three great scientific revolutions have shaped our understanding of the cosmos and our relationship to it. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed the Copernican Revolution, which bodychecked the Earth as the pivot point of creation and joined us with the rest of the cosmos as one planet among many orbiting the Sun. Three centuries later came the second great scientific revolution: the Darwinian Revolution. It removed us from a distinct, divine biological status to place us wholly in the ebb and flow of all terrestrial life. Now, science author Jacob Berkowitz describes how we're in the midst of a third great scientific revolution, five centuries in the making: the Stardust Revolution. It is the merging of the once-disparate realms of astronomy and evolutionary biology, and of the Copernican and Darwinian Revolutions, placing life in a cosmic context. The Stardust Revolution takes readers on a grand journey that begins on the summit of California's Mount Wilson, where astronomers first realized that the universe is both expanding and evolving, to a radio telescope used to identify how organic molecules{u2014}the building blocks of life{u2014}are made by stars. It's an epic story told through a scientific cast that includes some of the twentieth century's greatest minds{u2014}including Nobel laureate Charles Townes, who discovered cosmic water{u2014}as well as the most ambitious scientific explorers of the twenty-first century, those racing to find another living planet. Today, an entirely new breed of scientists{u2014}astrobiologists and astrochemists{u2014}are taking the study of life into the space age. Astrobiologists study the origins, evolution, and distribution of life, not just on Earth, but in the universe. Stardust science is filling in the missing links in our evolutionary story, ones that extend our family tree back to the stars. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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