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David bodanis taught intellectual history at the university of oxford. Now, in electric universe, he illuminates the wondrous yet invisible force that permeates our universeand introduces. The force that once seemed inconsequential was revealed to be responsible for everything from the. Electric universe applied biophysics aether research. Feb 15, 2005 david bodanis is the bestselling author of the secret house and emc2, which was turned into a pbs documentary and a southbank awardwinning ballet at sadlers wells. Thunderbolts of the gods by david talbott and wallace thornhill introduces the reader to an age of planetary instability and earthshaking electrical events in ancient times. In his october 2015 skeptic column for scientific american, michael shermer recounts his experience at the electric universe conference eu2015 in phoenix in june where he was invited to speak on the difference between science and pseudoscience. Electric universe is definitely top of the shelf when it comes to psychedelic trance. David bodanis looks at the ancestors of the equation, the three elements e, m and c before they end up together in. Books by new york times bestselling author david bodanis. The universe electric service, llc we keep your currents. Mar 22, 2015 journeys into outer space is one of electric universe s most powerful sounding albums as of yet, truly first class production and a level of psychedelic only the pioneer himself manages to. Purposeofthissummary this summary was created by nikola stankovic, robin suter, jonas matter, marcel stocker, patrick scherler, cyrill gsell to give a good overview of the book e mc2.
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