In the tradition of illustrated science bestsellers, like Thing
Explainer andharkening back to the classic film The Powers of Ten,
this unique, fully-illustrated, four-color book explores and visualizes
the concept of scale in our universe.
In Magnitude, Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke take us on an expansive
journey to the limits of size, mass, distance, time, temperature in our
universe, from the tiniest particle within the structure of an atom to
the most massive galaxy in the universe; from the speed at which grass
grows (about 2 to 6 inches a month) to the speed of light.
Fully-illustrated with four-color drawings and infographics throughout
and organized into sections including Size and Amount (Distance, Area,
Volume, Mass, Time, Temperature), Motion and Rate (Speed, Acceleration,
Density, Rotation), and Phenomena and Processes (Energy, Pressure,
Sound, Wind, Computation), Magnitude shows us the scale of our world
in a clear, visual way that our relatively medium-sized human brains can
easily understand.