And probably even pasadena. [laughing] thank you. My pleasure. Thank you everyone for joining us for the savings event. My name is kim sutton and and a host of tonight event. Before we begin i want to encourage you all to check out our lineup of upcoming Virtual Events by visiting powells. Com. When affirming Upcoming Events were looking for to is Tiffany Cross in conversation with about her new book say it lighter, black voters, white narratives and saving our democracy. Thats next friday the 18th. As a plea for member to follow us on twitter, facebook and instagram. Tonight we honor to welcome Leonard Mlodinow and rob paulsen. Leonard received his phd in theoretical physics from university of california at berkeley come wasnt alexander fellow at the Max Planck Institute and was on the faculty of telephone institute of technology. His previous books include bestsellers the grand design, and a briefer history of time both with Stephen Hawking can subliminal which was a winner of the li
Latest nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2 created by americas Television Company as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. As far as i can tell, we probably have i know leonard has readers from all over the world, he has readers until the united states, canada, mexico, haiti, jamaica, peru, caribbean, puerto rico, venezuela, guatemala, argentina and brazil, costa rica bermuda, san juan and probably even pasadena. [laughter] thank you rob. Take you everyone for joining us for this evenings event my name is kim and im the host of tonights event. Before we begin i want to encourage you all to check out our lineup of upcoming Virtual Events by visiting the website one of our Upcoming Events is tiffany and conversation with ellie about the new book say it louder, black voters, white narrative and saving our democracy. That is next friday the 18th. As well please remember to follow us on twitter, facebook, and instagram, tonight we are honored to welcome Leo
That the arts have been a considerable help that i had from the archives in writing this book. The destructive flash, which seared here she meant to history, was really the culmination of 50 years of scientific creativity and of more than 50 years of political and military turmoil. Generations of scientists had contributed to that moment in physics. Yet when they first began to tease out the secrets of matter, not even future nobel Prize Winners i think couldve predicted how their pioneering insights would combine with exterior of vents to produce such a defining military history. For the time this of many nations this journey of discovery began way back in the 1890s. Researchers like mary carey, which we will see in this for slide here, researchers like mary kerry working alone or in small teams with rudimentary equipment. They started to identify the minute Building Blocks forming the world around them. Blinding discoveries were often matched by blind alleys. People rushed to publish
A 1000 fold catches in peru with more planned until everyone who needs to capture clout. Consider a standard drop of water like the one used in medicine 500 other millipedes here or gram. It contains 56 trillion asked him that 5 with 210 s. There were 2 Hydrogen Atoms and one oxygen atom in every war somalia killed our viewer khalifah keys has a question about all this. What is an atom. Everything around us everything we can see feel smell or taste is made up of atoms and of course we are 2. Terms are the Building Blocks of matter. That sums out that spatial arrangement give matter its properties such as consistency and color. The way we think about atoms today is largely influenced by physicist niels bohrs model according to which electrons orbit the atoms nucleus. A bit like planets orbiting the sun. Was better cant be seen with the naked eye the fitness of a human hair. Is 500000. 00 times the diameter of a carbon atom. In the center of the atom is a tiny nucleus containing neutrons
Of the boats oceans are linked by currents crisscrossing the globe. One that flows up the Pacific Coast of south america is called the peruke or humboldt current yet the interest german naturalist went out to look in to answer tickets temperature. He was surprised to find it cooler than the more server around it. Before you died it was given his name but he responded modestly. Call the fishing boys from chile to piii to have known about the current for 300 years my only contribution was to be the 1st to have measured the temperature of the currents waters. Our expedition retracing alexander from whom but footsteps now takes us to peru and the current that bears his name. By the thawing when im in the water i enter a new world its a great privilege being able to observe things that so few other people can feel seen and understanding how nature works underwater is spectacular its an indescribable sensation traffic that would out if not have been to. Far this is where the Pacific Ocean me