Counting the Eons

200 Pages·1984·31.986 MB·English

by  Isaac Asimov

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V^hen was the universe "born" and
when will it die? Why (and when) are
diamonds unstable? What is the water
pressure at the deepest part of the
ocean? How old is the earth?
As you may have guessed, Isaac
Asimov is hack with a new collection
of seventeen essays that show him
ever true to wizardly form. Here is the
Good Doctor explaining everything you
always wanted to know about sub-
atomic particles but didn't know how
to ask; searching for the missing mass
of our Universe; playing around with
atmospheric pressure; pinpointing the
center of gravity within the solar
system; reflecting on why Einstein's
theory of relativity seems to violate
common sense; even speculating about
what Milton would be doing ifhe were
alive and well and living in the twen-
tieth century (he'd be writing science
fiction, don't you know!).
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Counting the Eons
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SCIENCE ESSAY COLLECTIONS BY ISAAC ASIMOV
From Fantasy andScience Fiction
Fact and Fancy
View from a Height
Adding a Dimension
OfTime and Space and Other Things
From Earth to Heaven
Science, Numbers and I
The Solar System and Back
The Starsin Their Courses
The Left Hand of the Electron
The Tragedy of the Moon
Asimov on Astronomy
Asimov on Chemistry
OfMatters Great and Small
Asimov on Physics
The Planet That Wasn't
Asimov on Numbers
Quasar, Quasar, Burning Bright
The Road to Infinity
The Sun Shines Bright
Counting the Eons
From Other Sources
Only a Trillion
Is Anyone There?
Today and Tomorrow and
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Science Past Science Future
The Beginning and the End
Life and Time
Counting the Eons
by Isaac Asimov
Doubleday& Company, Inc., GardenCity, New York
1983
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The following essays in this volume are reprinted from The Magazine of
Fantasy andScienceFictiony having appeared in the indicated issues:
Milton! ThouShouldstBeLiving atThisHour {August 1980)
GettingDown to Basics (September 1980)
The WordIInvented (October1980)
Countingthe Eons (November 1980)
Beyond Earth'sEons (December 1980)
All and Nothing (January 1981)
NothingandAll (February 1981)
Lightas Air? (March 1981)
TooDeep for Me (April 1981)
UnderPressure (May 1981)
YesI WithaBangI (June 1981)
The Runaway Star (July 1981)
TheDanceoftheStars (August 1981)
AndAfter Many aSunmierDiesthe Proton (September 1981
Let MeCount the Days (October 1981)
TheCrucial Asymmetry (November 1981)
LetEinstein Bel (December 1981)
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Copyright 1980, 1981 by Mercury Press, Inc.
Library ofCongressCatalogingin PublicationData
Asimov, Isaac, 1920-
Countingthe eons.
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LAstronomy ^Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Title.
QB51.A785 520 82-45068
ISBN 0-385-17976-6
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