A Matter of Degrees
What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe
By Gino Segre
About the book
Theoretical physicist Gino Segre uses temperature to tie together the study of life and matter, mixing science, history and imagination. He explains why most mammals keep an internal temperature near 98.6 degrees, how geologists read temperature to track the history of the planet, and why the pursuit of absolute zero and its quantum mechanical meaning is central to understanding superconductivity. He also turns to neutrinos, subatomic messengers from the sun that may hold clues to how the solar system was born and how it will die. Along the way Segre answers hundreds of other questions in which temperature plays a part, giving an unusual view of the everyday world.
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Charlie Munger (Vice Chairman/Berkshire Hathaway)
In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time—none. Zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads—and how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.
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