Friday, January 19, 2007
Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything
19 jan 2007 economic times.
" Much of what we think we know, we haven't known or thought we've known, for long. Even the notion of the Big Bang is quite a recent one. The idea had been kicking around since the 1920 s, when Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian preist-scholor, first tentatively proposed it, but it didn't really become an active notion in cosmology until the mid 1960 s when two young radio astronomers made an extraordinary discovery. Their names were - Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson. In 1965, they were trying to make use of a large communiations antenna owned by Bell Labs, but they were troubled by a presistent background noise - a steady, steamy hiss that made any experimental work impossible. The noise came from every point in thei sky, day and night.
For a year, the young astronomers did everything they could think of to track down and eliminate the noise.... Nothing they did or tried worked. Unknown to them, just 30 m iles away at Princeton University, a team of scientists led by robert Dicke ws trying and working on how to find the very thing they were trying to diligently to get rid of.
The Princeton researchers were pursuing an idea that had been suggested in the 1940 s , by the Russian born astrophysicist George Gamow that if you looked deep enough into space you should find some cosmic background radiation left over from the Big Bang. :"
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He wrote a lot of books, most of which were given a 4 star or 5 star rating at amazon. Bill Bryson book page is here.
" A short history of nearly everything " gotten a 4.5 rating . Link is here.
" The Life and times of thunderbolt kid - a memoir " gottn a 4 star rating. Link is here.
Bill Bryson's African Diary is here.
Dictionary of troublesome words got a 4 star rating.
All, worth reading. Buy economic times, even if you are buying Biz Line. At Rs.2.50 per day, it's lower than one fag and one tea , a combo which costs you Rs.8/- per day, even if you are having only ONE fag and tea. Spend, invest a very little amount on knowledge.
Off line gives you as much knowledge as on line reading.
" Much of what we think we know, we haven't known or thought we've known, for long. Even the notion of the Big Bang is quite a recent one. The idea had been kicking around since the 1920 s, when Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian preist-scholor, first tentatively proposed it, but it didn't really become an active notion in cosmology until the mid 1960 s when two young radio astronomers made an extraordinary discovery. Their names were - Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson. In 1965, they were trying to make use of a large communiations antenna owned by Bell Labs, but they were troubled by a presistent background noise - a steady, steamy hiss that made any experimental work impossible. The noise came from every point in thei sky, day and night.
For a year, the young astronomers did everything they could think of to track down and eliminate the noise.... Nothing they did or tried worked. Unknown to them, just 30 m iles away at Princeton University, a team of scientists led by robert Dicke ws trying and working on how to find the very thing they were trying to diligently to get rid of.
The Princeton researchers were pursuing an idea that had been suggested in the 1940 s , by the Russian born astrophysicist George Gamow that if you looked deep enough into space you should find some cosmic background radiation left over from the Big Bang. :"
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He wrote a lot of books, most of which were given a 4 star or 5 star rating at amazon. Bill Bryson book page is here.
" A short history of nearly everything " gotten a 4.5 rating . Link is here.
" The Life and times of thunderbolt kid - a memoir " gottn a 4 star rating. Link is here.
Bill Bryson's African Diary is here.
Dictionary of troublesome words got a 4 star rating.
All, worth reading. Buy economic times, even if you are buying Biz Line. At Rs.2.50 per day, it's lower than one fag and one tea , a combo which costs you Rs.8/- per day, even if you are having only ONE fag and tea. Spend, invest a very little amount on knowledge.
Off line gives you as much knowledge as on line reading.
