Zoom

From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees: How Everything Moves

By: Bob Berman

Narrated by: Bob Berman, Dan Woren

From the speed of light to moving mountains -- and everything in between -- Zoom explores how the universe and its objects move.

If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Blood rushes through your veins. The atoms in your chair jiggle furiously. In fact, the planet you are sitting on is whizzing through space thirty-five times faster than the speed of sound.

Natural motion dominates our lives and the intricate mechanics of the world around us. In Zoom, Bob Berman explores how motion shapes every aspect of the universe, literally from the ground up. With an entertaining style and a gift for distilling the wondrous, Berman spans astronomy, geology, biology, meteorology, and the history of science, uncovering how clouds stay aloft, how the Earth's rotation curves a home run's flight, and why a mosquito's familiar whine resembles a telephone's dial tone.

For readers who love to get smarter without realizing it, Zoom bursts with science writing at its best.

Love bobs books

Another great book by bob berman, he keeps your attention the entire book with some great stories that you’ve never heard before.

Solid Interesting fun and Informative.

Recommended highly. Good balance of fun and info. Good reader as well. Looking forward to a sequel.

Good info

Some really interesting stuff in here. Some stuff bared repeating to get all the info and understand it. I liked it, good stuff.

the category it was placed in on my phone

it was placed in a sexual genre that I don't understand especially considering it's about science. the speed of things, physics, etc.
other than that unrelated nonsense the book was ok.

Very interesting book about 'movement '!

I thought it would be somewhat boring, but to my surprise, it was very interested informative. I especially liked the information about snow and germs, seasons and wildlife, and the myths about water flow at the equator as well as the (actual) location of the equator to vwhich many tourists are oblivious.

I enjoyed nerding out listening to this book and dare I add, I wish the book was longer 😉