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Index
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
“Forward”
Prologue: Damage and Escape
PART I FIGURING OUT THE MOTION PICTURE
CHAPTER 1: The Growth of Nothingness: Journeys in an Exploding Universe
CHAPTER 2: Slow as Molasses: How We Learned to Love Lethargy
CHAPTER 3: Runaway Poles: They’re Really Shifting—Are We Toast?
CHAPTER 4: The Man Who Only Loved Sand: And the Curious Phenomena of the Atacama Desert
CHAPTER 5: Down the Drain: Weird Goings-On at the Equator, and the Frenchmen Who Died Young
CHAPTER 6: Frozen: The Unhurried Riddles of Snow and Ice
CHAPTER 7: April’s Hidden Mysteries: Deciphering the Secrets of Spring
PART II THE PACE QUICKENS
CHAPTER 8: The Gang That Deciphered the Wind: A Desert Dweller’s Airy Spells Last for a Millennium, While Two Oddballs Dodge the Inquisition
CHAPTER 9: Blown Away: A Fanatical Mariner Takes the World to the Edge of Violence
CHAPTER 10: Falling: Enigmas of the Most Far-Reaching Force
CHAPTER 11: Rush Hour for Every Body: Revelations Gained by Looking Within
CHAPTER 12: Brooks and Breakers: Earth’s Greatest Assets Are Liquid
CHAPTER 13: Invisible Companions: The Odd Entities Zooming Through Our Bodies
CHAPTER 14: The Stop-Action Murderer: And His Battles with the Ephemeral
CHAPTER 15: Barriers of Light and Sound: A Thirty-Century Quest That Began with Thunder
CHAPTER 16: Meteor in the Kitchen: And Other Peculiar End Points
CHAPTER 17: Infinite Speed: When Light’s Velocity Just Won’t Get You There
CHAPTER 18: Sleepy Village in an Exploding Universe: Back Where It All Began
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Bob Berman
Appendix 1: Table of Selected Natural Speeds
Appendix 2: A Note on Accuracy and Choice of Units
Bibliography
Notes
Newsletters
Table of Contents
Copyright
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