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The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System
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17,99 € |
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| Verlag: | The Experiment, LLC |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 27.02.2024 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781615197781 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 54 |
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Beschreibungen
<p><strong>The solar system unfolds before your eyes in this cheeky, myth-busting book (grounded in real math)!<br></strong></p>
<p>Quick: Picture the solar system. Do you see nine planets on tidy rings around the Sun? Then you have been lied to!</p>
<p>It’s not without reason: We have to draw the solar system that way to fit it on a place mat, or a lunch box, or into an ordinary book. But that familiar diagram is wrong about almost everything—and so this is no ordinary book. Seven double-gatefold pages open out not once but <em>twice</em>, capturing our planetary neighbors at scale.</p>
<p>At a 100,000,000,000-to-1 scale, the Sun is about the size of a dime. And five feet away from the Sun, we find . . . Earth, the size of a pinhead. A <em>hundred</em>-billion-to-one scale is not nearly small enough to fit our solar system into a book (or onto a soccer field)! How small do we need to go? Unfold the next three spreads to find out . . .</p>
<p>Quick: Picture the solar system. Do you see nine planets on tidy rings around the Sun? Then you have been lied to!</p>
<p>It’s not without reason: We have to draw the solar system that way to fit it on a place mat, or a lunch box, or into an ordinary book. But that familiar diagram is wrong about almost everything—and so this is no ordinary book. Seven double-gatefold pages open out not once but <em>twice</em>, capturing our planetary neighbors at scale.</p>
<p>At a 100,000,000,000-to-1 scale, the Sun is about the size of a dime. And five feet away from the Sun, we find . . . Earth, the size of a pinhead. A <em>hundred</em>-billion-to-one scale is not nearly small enough to fit our solar system into a book (or onto a soccer field)! How small do we need to go? Unfold the next three spreads to find out . . .</p>
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