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Levitt, Daniel.
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Matter -- Constitution.
Human body -- Composition.
Atoms.
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Levitt, Daniel.
Matter -- Constitution.
Human body -- Composition.
Atoms.
MARC Display
What'
s
gotten into you : the
story
of
your
body
's
atoms
, from the
Big
Bang
through
last
night'
s
dinner
/ Dan Levitt.
by
Levitt, Daniel.
Harper, 2023..
Call #:
539.7 L666w
Subjects
Matter -- Constitution.
Human
body
-- Composition.
Atoms
.
ISBN:
9780063251182 (hc.)
Alternate title:
What has gotten into you : the
story
of
your
body
's
atoms
, from the
Big
Bang
through
last
night'
s
dinner
Story
of
your
body
's
atoms
, from the
Big
Bang
through
last
night'
s
dinner
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiv, 385 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-365) and index.
Contents:
The journey begins : from a
big
bang
to a rocky home. Happy birthday to everyone : the priest who discovered the beginning of time ; "That'
s
funny" : what the eye can never see ; The best man at Harvard : the woman who changed how we see the stars ; Catastrophes to be thankful for : how to make a world from gravity and dust -- Let there be life!. Dirty snowballs and space rocks : the biggest flood of all time ; The most famous experiment : the search for the origin of the molecules of life ; The greatest mystery : the puzzling origin of the first cells -- From sunlight to
dinner
plate. Light assembly required : discovering photosynthesis ; Lucky breaks : from ocean scum to green planet ; Planting the seeds : how greenery and its allies made us possible -- From
atoms
to you. So much depends on so little : what do you need to eat to survive? ; Hidden in plain sight : the discovery of
your
master blueprint ; Elements and all : what is really inside you? -- Conclusion : what a long strange trip it'
s
been.
Summary:
"For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring
story
of the elements that make up the human
body
, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of miles and across billions of years to make us who we are. Every one of us contains a billion times more
atoms
than all the grains of sand in the earth'
s
deserts. If you weigh 150 pounds, you've got enough carbon to make 25 pounds of charcoal, enough salt to fill a saltshaker, enough chlorine to disinfect several backyard swimming pools, and enough iron to forge a 3-inch nail. But how did these elements combine to make us human? All matter- everything around us and within us- has an ultimate birthday: the day the universe was born. This informative, eye-opening, and eminently readable book is the
story
of our
atoms
' long strange journey from the
Big
Bang
to the creation of stars,
through
the assembly of Planet Earth, and the formation of life as we know it. It'
s
also the
story
of the scientists who made groundbreaking discoveries and unearthed extraordinary insights into the composition of life. Behind their unexpected findings were investigations marked by fierce rivalries, obsession, heartbreak, flashes of insight, and flukes of blind luck. Ultimately they've helped us understand the mystery of our existence: how a quadrillion
atoms
made of particles from the
Big
Bang
now animate each of our cells. Shaped by the curious mind and bold vision of science and history documentarian Dan Levitt, this wondrous book is no less than the
story
of life itself." --Provided by publisher.
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