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　　這是一部有關現代科學發展史的既通俗易懂又引人入勝的書，作者用清晰明瞭、幽默風趣的筆法，將宇宙大爆炸到人類文明發展進程中所發生的繁多妙趣橫生的故事一一收入筆下。驚奇和感嘆組成瞭這本書，曆曆在目的天下萬物組成瞭這本書，益於人們瞭解大韆世界的無窮奧妙，掌握萬事萬物的發展脈絡。本書2003年5月在美國齣版後，連續數十周高居《紐約時報》、《泰晤士報》排行榜最前列，在年度科學圖書排行榜中，本書更是勇奪桂冠！

內容簡介

One of the world’s most beloved writers and bestselling author of One Summer takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.

In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail—well, most of it. In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.

　　這是一部有關現代科學發展史的既通俗易懂又引人入勝的書，作者用清晰明瞭、幽默風趣的筆法，將宇宙大爆炸到人類文明發展進程中所發生的繁多妙趣橫生的故事一一收入筆下。驚奇和感嘆組成瞭本書，曆曆在目的天下萬物組成瞭本書，益於人們瞭解大韆世界的無窮奧妙，掌握萬事萬物的發展脈絡。
　　書中迴溯瞭科學史上那些偉大與奇妙的時刻，引用瞭近年來發現的最新科學史料，幾乎每一個被作者描述的事件都奇特而且驚人：宇宙起源於一個要用顯微鏡纔能看得見的奇點；全球氣候變暖可能會使北美洲和歐洲北部地區變得更加寒冷；1815年印度尼西亞鬆巴哇島坦博士拉火山噴發，噴湧而齣的熔岩以及相伴而來的海嘯奪走瞭10萬人的生命；美國黃石國傢公園是“世界上最大的活火山”……而那些沉迷於科學的科學傢們也是韆奇百怪：達爾文居然為蚯蚓彈起瞭鋼琴；牛頓將一根大針眼縫針插進眼窩，為的隻是看看會有什麼事情發生；富蘭剋林不顧生命危險在大雷雨裏放風箏；卡文迪許在自己身上做電擊強度實驗，竟然到瞭失去知覺的地步……
　　本書在講述科學的奇跡與成就的同時，還浸潤著濃鬱的悲天憫人的人文關懷。全書從科學發展史的角度對“我們從哪裏來？我們是誰？我們到哪裏去？”這一韆古命題作瞭極為精當的闡釋，每一個人在閱讀此書之後，都會對生命、對人生、對我們所生活的世界産生全新的感悟。一位美國小讀者的父親說，讀過《萬物簡史》之後，他對死亡不再感到恐懼……作者認為，這是一本書所能獲得的最高評價。

作者簡介

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa. For twenty years he lived in England, where he worked for the Times and the Independent, and wrote for most major British and American publications. His books include travel memoirs (Neither Here Nor There; The Lost Continent; Notes from a Small Island) and books on language (The Mother Tongue; Made in America). His account of his attempts to walk the Appalachian Trail, A Walk in the Woods, was a huge New York Times bestseller. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife and his four children.

　　比爾·布萊森，享譽世界的旅遊文學作傢。1951年齣生於美國艾奧瓦州，畢業於美國德雷剋大學。從1973年起，曾在英國居住20年之久，任職於《泰晤士報》與《獨立報》，同時也為《紐約時報》、《國傢地理雜誌》等刊物撰文。後搬迴美國，現與妻子和四個小孩居住於新罕布什爾州的漢諾威市。
　　布萊森擅長用不同的眼光來看待他所遊曆的世界，在他的書裏，英國式的睿智幽默與美國式的搞笑絕妙地融閤在瞭一起。他的尖刻加上他的博學，讓他的文字充滿瞭幽默、機敏和智慧，使他自己成為“目前活在世上的最有趣的旅遊文學作傢”（《泰晤士報》）。
　　代錶作有《哈！小不列顛》、《歐洲在發酵》、《一腳踩進小美國》、《彆跟山過不去》、《請問這裏是美國嗎？》等多種，每本均高居美、英、加暢銷書排行榜前列。其中《哈！小不列顛》更被英國讀者推選為“最能深刻傳達齣英國靈魂的作品”。
　　作者不但纔華橫溢，興趣亦十分廣泛，在語言學方麵著有《麻煩詞匯詞典》、《母語》、《美式英語》等書，皆為擁有廣大擁躉的幽默之作。

精彩書評

"Stylish [and] stunningly accurate prose. We learn what the material world is like from the smallest quark to the largest galaxy and at all the levels in between . . . brims with strange and amazing facts . . . destined to become a modern classic of science writing."
--The New York Times

"Bryson has made a career writing hilarious travelogues, and in many ways his latest is more of the same, except that this time Bryson hikes through the world of science."
--People

"Bryson is surprisingly precise, brilliantly eccentric and nicely eloquent . . . a gifted storyteller has dared to retell the world's biggest story."
--Seattle Times

"Hefty, highly researched and eminently readable."
--Simon Winchester, The Globe and Mail

"All non-scientists (and probably many specialized scientists, too) can learn a great deal from his lucid and amiable explanations."
--National Post

"Bryson is a terrific stylist. You can't help but enjoy his writing, for its cheer and buoyancy, and for the frequent demonstration of his peculiar, engaging turn of mind."
--Ottawa Citizen

"Wonderfully readable. It is, in the best sense, learned."
--Winnipeg Free Press

前言/序言

1 HOW TO BUILD A UNIVERSE
NO MATTER HOW hard you try you will never be able to grasp just how tiny, how spatially unassuming, is a proton. It is just way too small.
A proton is an infinitesimal part of an atom, which is itself of course an insubstantial thing. Protons are so small that a little dib of ink like the dot on this i can hold something in the region of 500,000,000,000 of them, rather more than the number of seconds contained in half a million years. So protons are exceedingly microscopic, to say the very least.
Now imagine if you can (and of course you can't) shrinking one of those protons down to a billionth of its normal size into a space so small that it would make a proton look enormous. Now pack into that tiny, tiny space about an ounce of matter. Excellent. You are ready to start a universe.
I'm assuming of course that you wish to build an inflationary universe. If you'd prefer instead to build a more old-fashioned, standard Big Bang universe, you'll need additional materials. In fact, you will need to gather up everything there is--every last mote and particle of matter between here and the edge of creation--and squeeze it into a spot so infinitesimally compact that it has no dimensions at all. It is known as a singularity.
In either case, get ready for a really big bang. Naturally, you will wish to retire to a safe place to observe the spectacle. Unfortunately, there is nowhere to retire to because outside the singularity there is no where. When the universe begins to expand, it won't be spreading out to fill a larger emptiness. The only space that exists is the space it creates as it goes.
It is natural but wrong to visualize the singularity as a kind of pregnant dot hanging in a dark, boundless void. But there is no space, no darkness. The singularity has no "around" around it. There is no space for it to occupy, no place for it to be. We can't even ask how long it has been there--whether it has just lately popped into being, like a good idea, or whether it has been there forever, quietly awaiting the right moment. Time doesn't exist. There is no past for it to emerge from.
And so, from nothing, our universe begins.
In a single blinding pulse, a moment of glory much too swift and expansive for any form of words, the singularity assumes heavenly dimensions, space beyond conception. In the first lively second (a second that many cosmologists will devote careers to shaving into ever-finer wafers) is produced gravity and the other forces that govern physics. In less than a minute the universe is a million billion miles across and growing fast. There is a lot of heat now, ten billion degrees of it, enough to begin the nuclear reactions that create the lighter elements--principally hydrogen and helium, with a dash (about one atom in a hundred million) of lithium. In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe. It is a place of the most wondrous and gratifying possibility, and beautiful, too. And it was all done in about the time it takes to make a sandwich.
When this moment happened is a matter of some debate. Cosmologists have long argued over whether the moment of creation was 10 billion years ago or twice that or something in between. The consensus seems to be heading for a figure of about 13.7 billion years, but these things are notoriously difficult to measure, as we shall see further on. All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. We were on our way.
There is of course a great deal we don't know, and much of what we think we know we haven't known, or thought we've known, for long. Even the notion of the Big Bang is quite a recent one. The idea had been kicking around since the 1920s, when Georges Lem tre, a Belgian priest-scholar, first tentatively proposed it, but it didn't really become an active notion in cosmology until the mid-1960s when two young radio astronomers made an extraordinary and inadvertent discovery.
Their names were Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson. In 1965, they were trying to make use of a large communications antenna owned by Bell Laboratories at Holmdel, New Jersey, but they were troubled by a persistent background noise--a steady, steamy hiss that made any experim A Short History of Nearly Everything萬物簡史 英文原版 [平裝] 下載 mobi epub pdf txt 電子書

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