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Zoom

From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees: How Everything Moves

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Read by Bob Berman

By Bob Berman

Read by Dan Woren

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From the speed of light to moving mountains — and everything in between — Zoom explores how the universe and its objects move.

If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. In fact, the planet you are sitting on is whizzing through space thirty-five times faster than the speed of sound.

Natural motion dominates our lives and the intricate mechanics of the world around us. In Zoom, Bob Berman explores how motion shapes every aspect of the universe, literally from the ground up. With an entertaining style and a gift for distilling the wondrous, Berman spans astronomy, geology, biology, meteorology, and the history of science, uncovering how clouds stay aloft, how the Earth’s rotation curves a home run’s flight, and why a mosquito’s familiar whine resembles a telephone’s dial tone.

For readers who love to get smarter without realizing it, Zoom bursts with science writing at its best.

On Sale
Jun 24, 2014
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781478953524

Bob Berman

About the Author

Bob Berman, one of America’s top astronomy writers, is the author of Zapped, Zoom, and The Sun’s Heartbeat. He contributed the popular “Night Watchman” column for Discover for seventeen years and is currently a columnist for Astronomy, a host on Northeast Public Radio, and the science editor of The Old Farmer’s Almanac. He lives in Willow, New York.

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