TY  - GEN
AU  - Tyson, Neil Degrasse
TI  - Death by black hole and other cosmic quandaries
SN  - 9780393350388
U1  - 523.8 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - W. W. Norton & Company
KW  - Dwellings
KW  - Cosmology
KW  - Religion and science
KW  - Exobiology
KW  - Solar system
KW  - Black holes (Astronomy)
KW  - Space biology
KW  - Astrophysics
KW  - Forest fires
N1  - Contents
Preface  11
Acknowledgments  13
Prologue: The Beginning of Science  15
SECTION 1 THE NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE
The challenges of knowing what is knowable in the universe
1. Coming to Our Senses  25
2. On Earth as in the Heavens  31
3. Seeing Isn't Believing  38
4. The Information Trap  48
5. Stick-in-the-Mud Science  60
SECTION 2 THE KNOWLEDGE OF NATURE  
The challenges of discovering the contents of the cosmos
6. Journey from the Center of the Sun  69
7. Planet Parade  75
8. Vagabonds of the Solar System  85
9. The Five Points of Lagrange  95
10. Antimatter Matters  102
SECTION 3 WAYS AND MEANS OF NATURE
How Nature presents herself to the inquiring mind
11. The Importance of Being Constant  111
12. Speed Limits  119
13. Going Ballistic  127
14. On Being Dense  135
15. Over the Rainbow  144
16. Cosmic Windows  152
17. Colors of the Cosmos  161
18. Cosmic Plasma  168
19. Fire and Ice  175
SECTION 4 THE MEANING OF LIFE
The challenges and triumphs of knowing how we got here
20. Dust to Dust  185
21. Forged in the Stars  192
22. Send in the Clouds  199
23. Goldilocks and the Three Planets  207
24. Water, Water  213
25. Living Space  221
26. Life in the Universe  229
27. Our Radio Bubble  238
SECTION 5 WHEN THE UNIVERSE TURNS BAD
All the ways the cosmos wants to kill us
28. Chaos in the Solar System  249
29. Coming Attractions  254
30. Ends of the World  263
31. Galactic Engines  268
32. Knock 'Em Dead  275
33. Death by Black Hole  283
SECTION 6 SCIENCE AND CULTURE
The ruffled interface between cosmic discovery and the public's reaction to it
34. Things People Say  291
35. Fear of Numbers  298
36. On Being Baffled  303
37. Footprints in the Sands of Science  309
38. Let There Be Dark  320
39. Hollywood Nights  327
SECTION 7 SCIENCE AND GOD
When ways of knowing collide
40. In the Beginning  337
41. Holy Wars  346
42. The Perimeter of Ignorance  353
References  363
Name Index  369
Subject Index  373
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