Product Description: “I much enjoyed wandering the world, following this enquiring and original mind.” Cern Courier If you think the future is a mystery, think again. With a solid foothold in realism, an extraordinary insight into scientific and technological developments, and a dry sense of humor, Nobel laureate Professor Gerard 't Hooft confidently dissects fact from fiction and shows us what our future might really hold...read more

In a companion volume to the successful Merlin's Tour of the Universe, a columnist for Natural History magazine offers more fascinating answers to seemingly ordinary questions about science and the stars. Original.

the book is arranged in five broad categories: distance, mass, temperature, speed, and time. The 135 essays cover such topics as how high you can jump, how big a water droplet can get, how heavy is light, and when you should add cream to your coffee. These clever pieces, accompanied by humorous illustrations, are clearly written and easy to understand, with a minimum of mathematics.

Product Description: Cloth; Mint; Dust Jacket - Like New; Blue cloth binding, Illus blue dust jacket, title & author in yellow, MINT, not price clipped. Plain endpapers, 313pp., charts. Stated FIRST EDITION. Traces interplanetary origins. A MINT copy. [Hertford, NC. USA].