Planckian Fables by Leonard Cottrell

Table of Contents

Preface
Part 1 — An Orbit Dream
Part 2 — Planet-Hopping and Rumpus
Part 3 — Wildflower Planet
Part 4 — The Rumpus-to-Weight Ratio
Part 5 — Fireworks
Part 6 — The Skimspeed and Weight of Earth
Part 7 — How the Universe is Like a Planet
Part 8 — The Flock of Moons
Part 9 — Sunlight on a Square Pace
Part 10 — How Apollo Invented the Lyre
Part 11 — The Strings of Distance, Time, and Quickness
Part 12 — The String of Perfect Lightness
Part 13 — Neon Lights Planet
Part 14 — How the Monkeys Measured the Speed of Light and Why the Parrot Has a Bad Temper
Part 15 — Falling Dream
Part 16 — The Paris Thermometer
Part 17 — Picarré de Soixante
Part 18 — Another Telling of the Lyre Story
Postscript 1 — Clicking on the Constants
Postscript 2 — Human-scale Planck Units
Postscript 3 —The Auspiciousness of Miles

Copyright © 1999, 2001 by Leonard Cottrell. All rights reserved.