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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Big Bang theory says the universe expanded from an extremely dense point, moving outward at truly extraordinary speed.
Chapter 3: The cosmos is so vast, there are likely other beings out there — we just haven’t discovered them yet.
Chapter 4: Isaac Newton concentrated on explaining the motions of the universe and the Earth clearly.
Chapter 5: Rocks and fossils revealed Earth’s antiquity, but radioactivity revealed precisely how old it truly was in years.
Chapter 6: Einstein’s special relativity says that time itself is indeed relative.
Chapter 7: Einstein’s general relativity completely transformed our understanding of gravity’s nature and behavior.
Chapter 8: Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle clarifies how subatomic particles move.
Chapter 9: Four distinct criteria make the existence of life on planet Earth possible.
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Chapter 11: Bacteria are Earth’s most abundant life forms, and we exist because they enable us to thrive.
Chapter 12: Life began spontaneously as a bundle of genetic material that discovered how to replicate itself successfully.
Chapter 13: Although Earth sustains uncountable species, all life on the planet can be considered one interconnected whole.
Chapter 14: Earth continually faces existential threats arising within the solar system — and from catastrophic forces waiting here on our own planet.
Description
A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) offers an enlightening summary of contemporary scientific thinking relating to all aspects of life, from the creation of the universe to our relationship with the tiniest of bacteria.
Who Should Listen
- Adults who want to brush up on their foundational science knowledge
- People interested in the origin of the universe and life on Earth
- Anyone fascinated by the world’s greatest scientific mind