We probably all have a vague idea of how to make an apple pie: mix flour and butter, throw in some apples and you're probably most of the way there, right? Think again. Making an apple pie from scratch requires ingredients that definitely aren't available in the supermarket, ovens that can reach temperatures of trillions of degrees, and a preparation time of 13.8 billion years. Inspired by Sagan's
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We probably all have a vague idea of how to make an apple pie: mix flour and butter, throw in some apples and you're probably most of the way there, right? Think again. Making an apple pie from scratch requires ingredients that definitely aren't available in the supermarket, ovens that can reach temperatures of trillions of degrees, and a preparation time of 13.8 billion years. Inspired by Sagan's famous line, Harry Cliff ventures out in search of the ultimate apple pie recipe, tracing the ingredients of our universe through the hearts of dying stars and back in time to a tiny fraction of a second after our universe began. Along the way, he confronts some really big questions: What is matter really made of? How does the stuff around us escape annihilation in the fearsome heat of the Big Bang? And will we ever be able to understand the very first moments of our universe? In pursuit of answers, Cliff ventures to the largest underground research facility in the world, deep beneath Italy's Gran Sasso mountains, where scientists gaze into the heart of the Sun using the most elusive of particles, the ghostly neutrino. He visits CERN in Switzerland to explore the 'Antimatter Factory' where this stuff of science fiction is manufactured daily (and we're close to knowing whether it falls upwards). And he reveals what the latest data from the Large Hadron Collider may be telling us about the fundamental ingredients of matter. Along the way, Cliff illuminates the history of physics, chemistry, and astronomy that brought us to our present understanding of the world, while offering readers a front-row seat to one of the most dramatic intellectual journeys human beings have ever embarked on. A transfixing deep dive into origins of our world, How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch doesn't just put the makeup of our universe under the microscope, but the awe-inspiring, improbable fact that it exists at all. 'A fascinating exploration of how we learned what matter really is, and the journey matter takes from the Big Bang, through exploding stars, ultimately to you and me.' - Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply Hidden 'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.' - Carl Sagan
Astronómia, vesmír, fyzika
Vitajte na našej stránke zameranej na fascinujúci svet astronómie, vesmíru a fyziky. Prírodné vedy sú oblasťou, ktorá pomáha objavovať a chápať zákony prírody, a práve astronómia, vesmír a fyzika sú jednými z najzaujímavejších a najmenej preskúmaných tém.
Na tejto stránke sa vám otvorí neskutočný svet hviezd, planét, galaxií a vesmírnych objektov. Budeme sa venovať nielen pozorovateľným astronómii, ale aj vedeckým teóriám a posledným objavom v oblasti vesmíru a fyziky. Nájdete tu informácie o najznámejších vesmírnych telesách a objektoch, ako je napríklad Slnečná sústava, Mliečna dráha a cúlajúce čierne diery.
Okrem toho si budeme klásť otázky, ako vznikol vesmír, aký je jeho vek a čo je temná hmota a temná energia. Odpovieme na vaše otázky a poskytneme návody na pozorovanie nočnej oblohy a astronómie pre amatérov. Budeme vám pravidelne prinášať novinky a vedecké objavy v oblasti astronómie, vesmíru a fyziky.
Ak vás fascinuje vesmír, chcete sa dozvedieť viac o nespočetných hviezdach, planétach či galaxiách, ste na správnom mieste. Nech už ste začiatočníci alebo pokročilí nadšenci, táto stránka vám poskytne zaujímavé a užitočné informácie o astronómii, vesmíre a fyzike, ktoré vás možno ešte viac priženia k nekonečnej kráse a tajomstvám tohto ohromujúceho vesmíru.