Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Anchor; 1st Anchor Books trade pbk. ed edition (April 14, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385480148
• ISBN-13: 978-0385480147
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces

Editorial Reviews Review In _Why Aren’t Black Holes Black_ Robert Hazen poses a dozen of the mostfundamental questions facing scientists today, then uses them as a springboardto review what is and isn’t understood about these topics. As the titlesuggests, the first few questions deal with cosmology, but its scopeultimately proves far broader. The book covers everything from how atomscombine to the biological origins of memory to the possibilities forfuturistic energy sources such as fusion. There’s a particularly fascinatingsection on the composition of the earth’s core, and throughout the book, Hazenmanages to weave in not just scientific facts but also a sense of the historyand personalities behind them. Review It is therefore very refreshing to read _Why Aren’t Black Holes Black?_ byRobert M. Hazen and Maxine Singer, which looks at the questions science has sofar failed to answer–a timely counterweight to the many books that stress thesuccesses of science. Hazen is an earth scientist and his co-author abiochemist, so they are well placed by their intellectual background to surveythe whole range of the sciences, not just concentrating on particle physics,cosmology or evolutionary biology, the subjects of so many recent popularbooks on science. — _The New York Times Book Review, Michael Redhead_ See all Editorial Reviews