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Review - The Magic Furnace - Marcus Chown

In a careful, enjoyable way, Chown leads us through one of the most fundamental aspects of science - where do the physical building blocks of the universe, atoms, come from?

Remarkably, we discover that the atoms that make up everything from our bodies to the Earth itself have been around for billions of years - the lightest of them emerging from the big bang, the heavier ones from exploding supernovas.

There are broadly two types of book addressing cosmology, the wildly speculative and the immensely practical. This is very much the latter. Highly recommended.

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