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100			_aTyson, Neil Degrasse _991768
245			_aDeath by black hole and other cosmic quandaries
260			_aNew York _bW. W. Norton & Company _c2014
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505			_aContents 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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650			_aDwellings _aCosmology _aReligion and science _aExobiology _aSolar system _aBlack holes (Astronomy) _aSpace biology _aAstrophysics
650			_aForest fires