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Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond

by Lawrence M. Krauss · 2001

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Now in paperback, the story of matter and the history of the cosmos—from the perspective of a single oxygen atom—is told with the insight and wit of one of the most dynamic physicists and writers working today.

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