The universe inside you: the extreme science of the human body from quantum theory to the mysteries of the brain
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-293) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 302 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9781848313538 1848313535 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgements
xiii
Introduction
xv
1.
In the mirror
1
On reflection
2
2.
A single hair
5
The colours of nature
6
Dyeing to be attractive
7
Worrying about hair loss
8
To make allies, lose your hair
10
Lost in space
14
A lousy measurement
17
Getting under your skin
18
What is stuff made of?
20
Battered by molecules
21
Empty atoms and electromagnetic bottoms
23
Exploring an atom s innards
24
No miniature solar system
26
Taking a quantum leap
27
The charm of quarks
28
The messy standard model
29
Is it solid, liquid or gas?
31
The fourth state of matter
33
Enter the condensate
35
Every kind of stuff
37
You are what you eat
38
Components that pre-date the Earth
39
A sprinkling of Stardust
41
3.
Locked up in a cell
43
Cursing the pain away
43
A living liquid
44
THE UNIVERSE INSIDE YOU
The signs of life 44
Are your cells alive?
46
A voyage through your bloodstream
47
The special molecule 48
A company of tiny boxes
51
The superstar molecule
52
Your own special code
55
The invaders in your cells
56
Wearing your alien genes
58
Your trillions of tiny stowaways
59
A useful appendix
61
Bacteria don t know the
ñve-second
rule
62
Worming their way into your affection
63
The noble leech
64
Aliens in the eyelashes
65
Seeing small
66
The rays that don t stop giving
67
Cats and nuclear resonance
69
Hunting the elusive neutrino
71
The neutrinos light couldn t catch
73
4.
Through fresh eyes
76
In Orion s belt
76
Seeing into the past
79
Waves or particles?
80
Bursting from the heart of a star
81
The 1,340-year star trek
82
The distorting lens
83
The Baywatch principle
85
Looking through a lentil
86
Through a glass, darkly
87
The messy colours of sight
89
Picking up the photons
91
From light to mind
93
Your artificial view of the world
95
Quantum reality
97
vi
CONTENTS
Through Young s slits
98
Uncertainty reigns
100
Getting entangled
101
A normal whole from quantum parts
103
A galactic feat
104
Glow-in-the-dark urine
106
Remnants of the Big Bang?
108
The expanding universe
109
The probable Big Bang
112
Playing with models
113
The out-of-control universe
115
A quasar too far
117
Black hole myths
118
Building a black hole
119
The non-eternal sunshine
121
The power source of life
123
Is there anybody out there?
124
The intelligence test
126
We are isolated, if not alone
127
5.
Marching on the stomach
129
Your inner chemistry
129
Reach for a chunk of rock
130
The evil compound of life
132
Adding a little fizz
133
Sitting at Dmitri s table
134
Meet element
114 136
Heavy metal or noble gas?
138
Turning food into energy
140
Hot food is good food
141
The cup that cheers
142
Food of the gods
144
The winners drug
146
From chemical energy to moving muscle
148
Making work happen
149
The great bumble bee mystery
150
VII
THE UNIVERSE INSIDE YOU
The elastic kangaroo 151
Heat on the move
1
5 2
No perpetual motion machines
155
The energy Crookes 156
Infinite clean energy 157
Entropy increases
158
The physics of monsters I59
Staying on two legs
161
Fidgets and knuckle-crackers
161
6.
Feeling dizzy
Counting the senses
163
From compression wave to brain wave
166
Audible illusions
167
The sound of emotion
167
All in good taste
168
Flavours and taste buds
170
The mineral in the kitchen cupboard
171
Sniffing your way around
172
Scenting a mate
173
À
la recherche
de odeur perdu
175
The sense that s everywhere
175
Seeing with your skin
176
A sense of pain
176
Finding your own nose
178
Sensing the accelerator
179
Weight and mass
180
Push me pull you
182
The occult force
183
Warping space and time
184
Falling and missing
185
No more action at a distance
187
Slowing your clocks
189
The force of creation
190
The force of electricity and magnetism
191
Going with the current
193
VIII
CONTENTS
Into the nucleus
196
The close-up force
197
Travelling through time
198
Light gets relative
199
Tunnelling through time
200
Build your own time machine
201
The paradoxes of time
203
Breathing easier at the theme park
204
7.
Two by two
205
What do you mean, attractive?
205
Birds do it, bees do it
... 206
You can t make an omelette without breaking eggs
208
Doing it the prehistoric way
208
The Stone Age technology in the park
210
Dog as prosthetic
212
Genetic engineering the natural way
213
The mighty
23 215
Beyond the gene
218
Similarities and differences
220
Attack of the clones
222
Hello Dolly
224
Growing old gracefully
226
8.
Crowning glory
228
What goes on inside your head
228
Brains weren t made for maths
230
Open the door
231
The two-boy problem
233
A test of your understanding
236
But what does it mean?
237
You must remember this
239
Solid state versus squishy state
241
Remembering how it s done
241
Remembering stuff
242
I know the face
243
ix
THE UNIVERSE INSIDE YOU
Take down my phone number
245
I remember that tail from somewhere
245
The brain scribble
246
Writing with pictures
247
Did you hear about my mummy?
249
Abjads to alphabets
250
It sounds capital
251
Are you human?
252
Would you kill to save lives?
255
Trusting and ultimatums
257
Weighing up the options
259
Allowing for all the factors
260
It could be you
261
Economics gets it wrong
263
Did you do that consciously?
263
Mood swings and comfort breaks
265
The brain s own painkillers
267
Homeopathic misdirection
268
The ethics of placebos
269
9.
Mirror, mirror
271
Building your ancestor tower
271
How many colours in the rainbow?
272
No sudden changes
273
A failure to link up
274
The babel of towers
275
Proud to be just a theory
276
Newton gets it wrong
277
Evolving makes a lot of sense
278
What use is half an eye?
279
Science can always be proved wrong
281
The sense of wonder
282
Appendix: Finding out more
283
Index
295
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