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The Universe Inside You The Extreme Science of the Human Body From Quantum Theory to the Mysteries of the Brain

by: Clegg, Brian

The Universe Inside You The Extreme Science of the Human Body From Quantum Theory to the Mysteries of the Brain

by: Clegg, Brian

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1848313535
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Copyright: 04/05/2012
Publisher: Icon Books

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In the sequel to his best-selling Inflight Science, Brian Clegg offers a spectacular tour through the human body. He explores mitochondria, in-cell powerhouses once separate creatures; how your eyes consume million-year-old photons of light; your many senses, which include the ability to detect warps in space and time; and why meeting an attractive person can turn you into a gibbering idiot. Brian Cleggis a science writer who lives in Wiltshire, England. His previous books include Before the Big Bang(St Martin's Griffin, 2011) and Inflight Science(Totem Books, 2011).

Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
In the mirror	p. 1
On reflection	p. 2
A single hair	p. 5
The colours of nature	p. 6
Dyeing to be attractive	p. 7
Worrying about hair loss	p. 8
To make allies, lose your hair	p. 10
Lost in space	p. 14
A lousy measurement	p. 17
Getting under your skin	p. 18
What is stuff made of?	p. 20
Battered by molecules	p. 21
Empty atoms and electromagnetic bottoms	p. 23
Exploring an atom's innards	p. 24
No miniature solar system	p. 26
Taking a quantum leap	p. 27
The charm of quarks	p. 28
The messy standard model	p. 29
Is it solid, liquid or gas?	p. 31
The fourth state of matter	p. 33
Enter the condensate	p. 35
Every kind of stuff	p. 37
You are what you eat	p. 38
Components that pre-date the Earth	p. 39
A sprinkling of stardust	p. 41
Locked up in a cell	p. 43
Cursing the pain away	p. 43
A living liquid	p. 44
The signs of life	p. 44
Are your cells alive?	p. 46
A voyage through your bloodstream	p. 47
The special molecule	p. 48
A company of tiny boxes	p. 51
The superstar molecule	p. 52
Your own special code	p. 55
The invaders in your cells	p. 56
Wearing your alien genes	p. 58
Your trillions of tiny stowaways	p. 59
A useful appendix	p. 61
Bacteria don't know the five-second rule	p. 62
Worming their way into your affection	p. 63
The noble leech	p. 64
Aliens in the eyelashes	p. 65
Seeing small	p. 66
The rays that don't stop giving	p. 67
Cats and nuclear resonance	p. 69
Hunting the elusive neutrino	p. 71
The neutrinos light couldn't catch	p. 73
Through fresh eyes	p. 76
In Orion's belt	p. 76
Seeing into the past	p. 79
Waves or particles?	p. 80
Bursting from the heart of a star	p. 81
The 1,340-year star trek	p. 82
The distorting lens	p. 83
The Baywatch principle	p. 85
Looking through a lentil	p. 86
Through a glass, darkly	p. 87
The messy colours of sight	p. 89
Picking up the photons	p. 91
From light to mind	p. 93
Your artificial view of the world	p. 95
Quantum reality	p. 97
Through Young's slits	p. 98
Uncertainty reigns	p. 100
Getting entangled	p. 101
A normal whole from quantum parts	p. 103
A galactic feat	p. 104
Glow-in-the-dark urine	p. 106
Remnants of the Big Bang?	p. 108
The expanding universe	p. 109
The probable Big Bang	p. 112
Playing with models	p. 113
The out-of-control universe	p. 115
A quasar too far	p. 117
Black hole myths	p. 118
Building a black hole	p. 119
The non-eternal sunshine	p. 121
The power source of life	p. 123
Is there anybody out there?	p. 124
The intelligence test	p. 126
We are isolated, if not alone	p. 127
Marching on the stomach	p. 129
Your inner chemistry	p. 129
Reach for a chunk of rock	p. 130
The evil compound of life	p. 132
Adding a little fizz	p. 133
Sitting at Dmitri's table	p. 134
Meet element 114	p. 136
Heavy metal or noble gas?	p. 138
Turning food into energy	p. 140
Hot food is good food	p. 141
The cup that cheers	p. 142
Food of the gods	p. 144
The winners' drug	p. 146
From chemical energy to moving muscle	p. 148
Making work happen	p. 149
The great bumble bee mystery	p. 150
The elastic kangaroo	p. 151
Heat on the move	p. 152
No perpetual motion machines	p. 155
The energy Crookes	p. 156
Infinite clean energy	p. 157
Entropy increases	p. 158
The physics of monsters	p. 159
Staying on two legs	p. 161
Fidgets and knuckle-crackers	p. 161
Feeling dizzy	p. 163
Counting the senses	p. 163
From compression wave to brain wave	p. 166
Audible illusions	p. 167
The sound of emotion	p. 167
All in good taste	p. 168
Flavours and taste buds	p. 170
The mineral in the kitchen cupboard	p. 171
Sniffing your way around	p. 172
Scenting a mate	p. 173
À la recherche de odeur perdu	p. 175
The sense that's everywhere	p. 175
Seeing with your skin	p. 176
A sense of pain	p. 176
Finding your own nose	p. 178
Sensing the accelerator	p. 179
Weight and mass	p. 180
Push me pull you	p. 182
The occult force	p. 183
Warping space and time	p. 184
Falling and missing	p. 185
No more action at a distance	p. 187
Slowing your clocks	p. 189
The force of creation	p. 190
The force of electricity and magnetism	p. 191
Going with the current	p. 193
Into the nucleus	p. 196
The close-up force	p. 197
Travelling through time	p. 198
Light gets relative	p. 199
Tunnelling through time	p. 200
Build your own time machine	p. 201
The paradoxes of time	p. 203
Breathing easier at the theme park	p. 204
Two by two	p. 205
What do you mean, attractive?	p. 205
Birds do it, bees do it…	p. 206
You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs	p. 208
Doing it the prehistoric way	p. 208
The Stone Age technology in the park	p. 210
Dog as prosthetic	p. 212
Genetic engineering the natural way	p. 213
The mighty 23	p. 215
Beyond the gene	p. 218
Similarities and differences	p. 220
Attack of the clones	p. 222
Hello Dolly	p. 224
Growing old gracefully	p. 226
Crowning glory	p. 228
What goes on inside your head	p. 228
Brains weren't made for maths	p. 230
Open the door	p. 231
The two-boy problem	p. 233
A test of your understanding	p. 236
But what does it mean?	p. 237
You must remember this	p. 239
Solid state versus squishy state	p. 241
Remembering how it's done	p. 241
Remembering stuff	p. 242
I know the face	p. 243
Take down my phone number	p. 245
I remember that tail from somewhere	p. 245
The brain scribble	p. 246
Writing with pictures	p. 247
Did you hear about my mummy?	p. 249
Abjads to alphabets	p. 250
It sounds capital	p. 251
Are you human?	p. 252
Would you kill to save lives?	p. 255
Trusting and ultimatums	p. 257
Weighing up the options	p. 259
Allowing for all the factors	p. 260
It could be you	p. 261
Economics gets it wrong	p. 263
Did you do that consciously?	p. 263
Mood swings and comfort breaks	p. 265
The brain's own painkillers	p. 267
Homeopathic misdirection	p. 268
The ethics of placebos	p. 269
Mirror, mirror	p. 271
Building your ancestor tower	p. 271
How many colours in the rainbow?	p. 272
No sudden changes	p. 273
A failure to link up	p. 274
The babel of towers	p. 275
Proud to be 'just a theory'	p. 276
Newton gets it wrong	p. 277
Evolving makes a lot of sense	p. 278
What use is half an eye?	p. 279
Science can always be proved wrong	p. 281
The sense of wonder	p. 282
Appendix: Finding out more	p. 283
Index	p. 295
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The Universe Inside You The Extreme Science of the Human Body From Quantum Theory to the Mysteries of the Brain

The Universe Inside You The Extreme Science of the Human Body From Quantum Theory to the Mysteries of the Brain

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