Jay m A

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Reading Bill Brysons 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' and its getting pretty good now that I'm a third of the way through it.

Now then, IIRC in every CC of air we breathe there is approximatly 45 billion billion molecules. Quite a lot then.

Also atoms are quite hardy things, last about 1x10^35 years, quite a while. Which means that they get about a bit over the years.

Some sad person calculated that right now - that of the god knows how many atoms that make up you or I, about 1 billion of them have also been part of Shakespere.

Freaky but apparently true

But of course I suppose we share 1 billion atoms with anyone thats died over a couple of hundred years ago or more, so not are you sharing atoms that have made Shakey, but also Henry VIII, Julius Caesar, Conan the Barbarian etc

Made me pause for a moment last night anyway...

fivepint

hehe I luv that ****e

suprabeast

Is it a good book?

I've just finished down under and and a walk in the woods and was looking for something else to read

SJ_Skyline

Haven't laughed so hard or long since the part in "Walk in the woods" when Katz threw his kit and most of the food down a ravine

oh, and the blatant Bear paranoia!!

Great Read

suprabeast

That book did crack me up.. also in the airport when Katz is talking to the airline check-in operator. Very quick witted..

Jay m A

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Well its not for those who have read a few of Steven Hawkings books and are on the search for more enlightenment.

Its basically a history of science, so not only do you get laymans explanation of Big bang thoery, macro and quantum physics etc, but aslo geology, evolution etc. Basically every aspect of why we are here, and more interestingly how we got here.

He has not only researched what is accepted as modern theory, but also the history of science research itself.

I'm enjoying it, both the info and how its presented