Richard Baedecker, the aptly named hero of this extraordinary novel, is a man adrift, searching for a lost sense of purpose. A former astronaut, Baedecker once walked on the moon, briefly escaping the tidal pull of gravity itself. Sixteen years later, gravity and other entropic forces have overtaken
Phase transitions and gravity
β Scribed by B.S. Sathyaprakash; Eric A. Lord; K.P. Sinha
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 181 KB
- Volume
- 105
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0375-9601
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