Once Upon a Universe: Not-So-Grimm Tales of Cosmology

by Robert Gilmore

Book Overview

First Snow White encounters one of the Little People, then one of the Even Smaller People, and finally one of the Truly Infinitesimal People. And no matter how diligently she searches, the only dwarves she can find are collapsed stars Clearly, she's not at home in her well-known Brothers Grimm fairy tale, but instead in a strange new landscape that features quantum behavior, the wavelike properties of particles, and the Uncertainty Principle...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387955666
• ISBN13: 9780387955667
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Copernicus Books
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"