第2章 CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION 1 How to Build a Universe 2 Welcome to the Solar System 3 The Reverend Evanss Universe 4 The Measure of Things 5 The Stone-Breakers 6 Science Red in Tooth and Claw 7 Elemental Matters 8 Einsteins Universe 9 The Mighty Atom 10 Getting the Lead Out 11 Muster Marks Quarks

12 The Earth Moves 13 Bang! 14 The Fire Below 15 Dangerous Beauty 16 Lonely Planet 17 Into the Troposphere 18 The Bounding Main 19 The Rise of Life 20 Small World 21 Life Goes On 22 Good-bye to All That 23 The Richness of Being 24 Cells 25 Darwins Singular Notion 26 The Stuff of Life

27 Ice Time 28 The Mysterious Biped 29 The Restless Ape 30 Good-bye NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX The physicist Leo Szilard once announced to his friend Hans Bethe that he was thinking of keeping a diary: "I dont intend to publish. Iam merely going to record the facts for the information of God.""Dont you think God knows the facts?" Bethe asked.

"Yes," said Szilard. "He knows the facts, but He does not know this version of the facts." -Hans Christian von Baeyer,Taming the Atom