The Matchbox That Ate a Forty-Ton Truck: What Everyday Things Tell Us About the Universe Children's Interactive Adventures from the author of The

from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z

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ISBN13: 9781935391241 ISBN10: 1935391240 Material Type: paperback

Van der Valk has the arduous task of finding out why and where they are

The Matchbox That Ate a Forty-Ton Truck: What Everyday Things Tell Us About the Universe Children's Interactive Adventures from the author of TheLook around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you about the most shocking discovery in the history of science: that at its deepest level the world is orchestrated by chance; that ultimately, things happen for no reason at all. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger shows you that somewhere out in space there is a furnace at a temperature of 4. 5 billion degrees. Static on your TV screen proclaims that the universe had a beginning.