Our world has ended five times: it has been broiled, frozen, poison-gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids. In The Ends of the World, Peter Brannen dives into deep time, exploring Earth’s past dead ends, and in the process, offers us a glimpse of our possible future. Many scientists now believe that the climate shifts of the twenty-first century have analogs in these five e...(展开全部)

作者介紹 彼得‧博恩藍　Peter Brannen 科學記者。作品涵蓋古生物、古氣候、海洋生物，到科學哲學。作品見於《連線》、《紐約時報》、《萬古》雜誌、《華盛頓郵報》、《大西洋》等媒體。畢業於波士頓學院，2015年美國杜克大學演化綜合研究中心駐所記者，獲2011年霍爾海洋學研究所海洋科學新聞獎助。現居波士頓。本書為他的第一本著作。 譯者介紹 張毅瑄 台大化學系、台大歷史研究所畢業，目前專職從事書籍翻譯，譯有《非凡物種》《哺乳動物們：英國博物學家的自然觀察筆記》等。

Our world has ended five times: it has been broiled, frozen, poison-gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids. In The Ends of the World, Peter Brannen dives into deep time, exploring Earth’s past dead ends, and in the process, offers us a glimpse of our possible future. Many scientists now believe that the climate shifts of the twenty-first century have analogs in these five e...(展开全部)

作者介紹 彼得‧博恩藍　Peter Brannen 科學記者。作品涵蓋古生物、古氣候、海洋生物，到科學哲學。作品見於《連線》、《紐約時報》、《萬古》雜誌、《華盛頓郵報》、《大西洋》等媒體。畢業於波士頓學院，2015年美國杜克大學演化綜合研究中心駐所記者，獲2011年霍爾海洋學研究所海洋科學新聞獎助。現居波士頓。本書為他的第一本著作。 譯者介紹 張毅瑄 台大化學系、台大歷史研究所畢業，目前專職從事書籍翻譯，譯有《非凡物種》《哺乳動物們：英國博物學家的自然觀察筆記》等。

For millennia, scientists have puzzled over a simple question: Does the universe have a speed limit? If not, some effects could happen at the same instant as the actions that caused them -- and some effects, ludicrously, might even happen before their causes. By one hundred years ago, it seemed clear that the speed of light was the fastest possible speed. Causality was safe. An...(展开全部)

Throughout history, from the time of Socrates to our own modern age, the human race has sought the answers to fundamental questions of life: Who are we? Why are we here? The Seekers in history of our great Western heritage of ideas, told through the lives of the speakers who still speak to us: from Moses and Aristotle and Plato through Thucydides, Thomas Moore, Machiavelli, and...(展开全部)

The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the face of the growing perception of the dire effects of global warming, some of these vi...(展开全部)

Everything around us is made of 'stuff', from planets, to books, to our own bodies. Whatever it is, we call it matter or material substance. It is solid; it has mass. But what is matter, exactly? We are taught in school that matter is not continuous, but discrete. As a few of the philosophers of ancient Greece once speculated, nearly two and a half thousand years ago, matter co...(展开全部)