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Prologue : damage and escape
Part I. Figuring out the motion picture. The growth of nothingness : journeys in an exploding universe
Slow as molasses : how we learned to love lethargy
Runaway poles : they're really shifting : are we toast?
The man who only loved sand : and the curious phenomena of the Atacama Desert
Down the drain : weird goings-on at the Equator, and the Frenchmen who died young
Frozen : the unhurried riddles of snow and ice
April's hidden mysteries : deciphering the secrets of spring
Part II. The pace quickens. The gang that deciphered the wind : a desert dweller's airy spells last for a millennium, while two oddballs dodge the Inquisition
Blown away : a fanatical mariner takes the world to the edge of violence
Falling : enigmas of the most far-reaching force
Rush hour for every body : revelations gained by looking within
Brooks and breakers : Earth's greatest assets are liquid
Invisible companions : the odd entities zooming through our bodies
The stop-action murderer : and his battles with the ephemeral
Barriers of light and sound : a thirty-century quest that began with thunder
Meteor in the kitchen : and other peculiar end points
Infinite speed : when light's velocity just won't get you there
Sleepy village in an exploding universe : back where it all began
Appendix 1. Table of selected natural speeds
Appendix 2. A note on accuracy and choice of units.
Part I. Figuring out the motion picture. The growth of nothingness : journeys in an exploding universe
Slow as molasses : how we learned to love lethargy
Runaway poles : they're really shifting : are we toast?
The man who only loved sand : and the curious phenomena of the Atacama Desert
Down the drain : weird goings-on at the Equator, and the Frenchmen who died young
Frozen : the unhurried riddles of snow and ice
April's hidden mysteries : deciphering the secrets of spring
Part II. The pace quickens. The gang that deciphered the wind : a desert dweller's airy spells last for a millennium, while two oddballs dodge the Inquisition
Blown away : a fanatical mariner takes the world to the edge of violence
Falling : enigmas of the most far-reaching force
Rush hour for every body : revelations gained by looking within
Brooks and breakers : Earth's greatest assets are liquid
Invisible companions : the odd entities zooming through our bodies
The stop-action murderer : and his battles with the ephemeral
Barriers of light and sound : a thirty-century quest that began with thunder
Meteor in the kitchen : and other peculiar end points
Infinite speed : when light's velocity just won't get you there
Sleepy village in an exploding universe : back where it all began
Appendix 1. Table of selected natural speeds
Appendix 2. A note on accuracy and choice of units.