num_pages: 192
description:  In the tradition of illustrated science bestsellers like Thing Explainer and harkening back to the classic film The Powers of Ten this unique fully-illustrated four-color book explores and visualizes the concept of scale in our universe. In Magnitude Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke take us on an expansive journey to the limits of size mass distance time temperature in our universe from the tiniest particle within the structure of an atom to the most massive galaxy in the universe; from the speed at which grass grows (about 2 to 6 inches a month) to the speed of light. Fully-illustrated with four-color drawings and infographics throughout and organized into sections including Size and Amount (Distance Area Volume Mass Time Temperature) Motion and Rate (Speed Acceleration Density Rotation) and Phenomena and Processes (Energy Pressure Sound Wind Computation) Magnitude shows us the scale of our world in a clear visual way that our relatively medium-sized human brains can easily understand.
language: English
title: Magnitude: The Scale of the Universe
publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal