The Universe as It Really Is: Earth, Space, Matter, and Time

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By Thomas R. Scott ’66

Published June 26, 2018

In the years before his death in 2017, Thomas Scott ’66 was dean of the College of Sciences at San Diego State and host of a syndicated science show produced by his local public radio station. That science-for-the-layman attitude is found in The Universe as It Really Is, an accessible, wide-ranging primer on the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, geology, atmospheric science, astronomy, and much more.

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