George and the Secrets of the Universe
19.99 €
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George and the Secrets of the Universe
19.99 €
Across the universe on an asteroid - no way! It can! - There is no doubt about the famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, his daughter Lucy and former graduate student and now popularizer of science Christoph Galfar, who in September 2007 presented their first book for children about the adventures of George and his friends in the Universe. In this lively and fun book, they explained fantastically interesting subjects - black holes, quasars, asteroids, galaxies and parallel universes - to children. The authors emphasize that they wanted to "present a modern view of cosmology from the Big Bang to the present without any magic." The only magical hero in the book is the supercomputer that opens the door for George and his friends into the universe. This is a story about the space adventures the friends go on to learn more about the world we live in. It is also a story about the laws of physics that govern this world. But, among other things, it is a story about a lonely boy named George and how his life has changed since the day he met his new neighbors, Annie and Eric. Annie loves ballet more than anything, and her father Eric, a space scientist, loves space more than anything. Eric is helped by a supercomputer named... "Cosmos." This computer is so powerful and so clever that it can draw doors through which you can get to any point in the Universe (of course, wearing a spacesuit - it's terribly cold out there in outer space!). And while George and his friends explore outer space, Cosmos manages the flight... if he's on the spot, of course. But in any book, even in a science-adventure book, there are evil forces that... However, we won't tell you the plot in advance, because very soon you'll find it out for yourself.
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