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Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
I remember reading a pop-science book about 10-12 years ago where it had various chapters on scientific concepts, written at about a year 11-12 level. One of the chapters was called something like "The incredibly unlikely triple-alpha process", speaking about how we got carbon inside stars. I think the book had a pink cover. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

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Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

wizzardstaff posted:

Poking around Google Books I think this is The Matchbox That Ate a Forty-Ton Truck by Marcus Chown which has a pink cover and a chapter called "You, Me, and the Spectacularly Unlikely Triple-Alpha Process".

Nailed it, thank you very much!

edit: huh, that's one of the chapters in the book, but the title I know it by is actually We Need To Talk About Kelvin, which is how it was released outside the USA.

Memento fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Apr 28, 2021

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