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From the rate of light to moving mountains - and everything among, Focus explores how the universe and its objects move. If you sit down as still as possible in a silent room, you might be able to persuade yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Bloodstream rushes through your blood vessels. The atoms in your seat jiggle furiously. Actually, the earth you are resting on is whizzing through space 35 times faster than the rate of sound. Natural movement dominates our lives and the complicated mechanics of the world all around us. In Focus, Bob Berman explores how movement shapes every part of the world, literally from the ground up. With an interesting and amusing style and a knack for distilling the wondrous, Berman spans astronomy, geology, biology, meteorology, and the history of research, uncovering how clouds stay aloft, how the earth's rotation curves a home run's journey, and just why a mosquito's familiar whine resembles a telephone's dial firmness.
