Strange questions about the universe, or how to make the sun from banana puree. Chaun M.

In our world there are many phenomena that seem completely logical. Moreover, over the past century, in science, many breakthroughs have happened that helped us better understand ourselves, our planet and the Universe. But our sorties beyond the limits of the earth's atmosphere, a closer acquaintance with quantum phenomena and a leap in the development of technologies also indicated that the world is much more strange than we expected.

Marcus Council, the British popularizer of science and the author of the bestseller , reveals the secret of the most important scientific facts about us, earthly reality and space. The facts that we are faced with in everyday life and which establish its order, nevertheless, remaining completely not obvious to us. Do you know that all of humanity can fit in a piece of sugar? Or that the electric energy of the only mosquito is enough to provoke mass extinction? Or what is far in space hides an infinite number of your copies, reading an infinite number of copies of this book? And in the end, that the sun could well be cast from banana mashed potatoes?