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The Matchbox That Ate a Forty-Ton Truck: What Everyday Things Tell Us About the Universe

By Marcus Chown
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By Marcus Chown
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Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you about the most shocking discovery in the history of science: that at its deepest level the world is orchestrated by chance; that ultimately, things happen for no reason at all. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger shows you that somewhere out in space there is a furnace at a temperature of 4.5 billion degrees. Static on your TV screen proclaims that the universe had a beginning. The bulb above your head emits light, an...

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