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The Science of  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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The Science of  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Science of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Michael Hanlon

196 pages, parution le 14/07/2006

Résumé

Ever wondered what the end of the Universe might actually look like? Why the number 42 is so significant? Or whether time travel really would put a stop to history as we know it? If so you are clearly a fan of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, now a major motion picture.

Much of the book was sheer whimsy: talking mattresses, the Vogons, triple-breasted whores and that Ol' Janx Spirit. But like all good science fiction, it contained more than a grain of scientific fact. Adams was a science and technology enthusiast and his books were inspired by - prefigured even - many of the great scientific debates of our times.
The Science of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a light-hearted, accessible and informative tour of the real cutting-edge research behind the corner-stones of a much-loved classic, including space tourism, parallel universes, instant translation devices, sentient computers and more.

L'auteur - Michael Hanlon

Michael Hanlon is one of Britain's most successful science writers. He has been Science Editor at The Daily Mail for more than four years; prior to this he was at The Daily Express, The Independent and Irish News. He contributes regularly to magazines such as The Spectator and New Statesman, and appears on TV and radio as a science pundit. He has written two popular science books to date: The Worlds of Galileo (Constable, 2001) and The Real Mars (Constable, 2004). Michael's writings have made him few friends in the alternative medicine industry, and his greatest fear is a return to the New Age.

Sommaire

  • acknowledgements
  • introduction
  • where are the aliens?
  • deep thought
  • the existence of god
  • the restaurant at the end of the universe
  • the big bang burger bar
  • time travel
  • the babel fish
  • teleportation
  • meat with a clean conscience
  • the total perspective vortex
  • parallel worlds
  • the whale that came from nowhere
  • ultimate questions - and answers
  • further reading
  • index
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Éditeur(s) Macmillan
Auteur(s) Michael Hanlon
Parution 14/07/2006
Nb. de pages 196
Format 13 x 20
Couverture Broché
Poids 208g
Intérieur Noir et Blanc
EAN13 9780230008908
ISBN13 978-0-230-00890-8

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