Earth-shattering : violent supernovas, galactic explosions, biological mayhem, nuclear meltdowns, and other hazards to life in our universe / Bob Berman.

A heart-pumping exploration of the biggest explosions in history, from the Big Bang to mysterious activity on Earth and everything in between The overwhelming majority of celestial space is inactive, and will remain forever unruffled. Similarly, more than 90% of the universe's 70 billion trillion su...

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Main Author: Berman, Bob (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Big bang theory > Popular works.
Cosmology > Popular works.
Big bang theory.
Cosmology.
SCIENCE / Cosmology.
Popular works.
Genre:
Popular works.
Physical Description:xii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part I : Cataclysms in the heavens. Cataclysms 101
  • It really was a Big Bang
  • The death of cousin Theia
  • Spooky things that went bang
  • Blame it on the supernova
  • Armageddon monument
  • Tycho versus Kepler : dueling detonations
  • When galaxies collide
  • Magnetic violence
  • The lethal antimatter fountain
  • Dangerous bubbles
  • The exploding galaxy next door
  • Waiting for a Carrington cataclysm
  • Can we trust space itself?
  • The final supernova
  • The 2017 kilonova
  • Part II : Cataclysms of Earth. The oxygen holocaust
  • The greatest mass extinction
  • The dino saur show gets canceled
  • Snowball Earth
  • The plague
  • Just the flu
  • The Second World War
  • Nuclear cataclysms
  • A new state capital?
  • Secrets of Chernobyl
  • The hybrid cataclysm
  • That thermonuclear business
  • Modern meteors and flipping poles
  • When it sure seemed like the apocalypse
  • Invading our bodies today
  • Part III : Tomorrow's cataclysms. Collision with Andromeda
  • Upcoming cataclysms
  • Holocene extinction
  • The sun has the last word.