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In 1900, the British physicist Lord Kelvin declared "There is nothing new to discover in physics. All that remains is to more accurately measure its quantities" today, hardly anyone would dare say that our knowledge of the universe and everything in it is almost complete. There are still some deficiencies in the standard model of physics, such as the origin of mass, the strong CP problem, neutrino oscillations, matter-antimatter asymmetry and the...
142) Dark Energy Physics
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Black holes are the largest stores of energy in the universe, they rule the universe. The story that black holes have a gravitational singularity at their centres is about to be blown out of the water. Dark energy physics is a new model of the universe that explains how black holes work. Gravity Telescopes are now recording the secrets of the universe, it's new it's never happened before. The laws of physics are being rewritten. The story of the big...
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This book offers a radical perspective uniting science with spiritual experience and non-ordinary views of reality. It provides a comprehensive view through physics, biology, genetics, psychology and human development. The result is a connected web that shows the patterns connecting consciousness to material existence. It reveals the non-ordinary reality of intuition, psychic experience and alternative medicine as not just side effects created by...
144) The Arctic Sky
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Through the lens of Inuit astronomical knowledge and traditions, The Arctic Sky underscores the complexities of the Inuit worldview, where nature's realm is intrinsically one with human society. In essence, this work asserts another way of knowing the universe.
For Inuit, the celestial and atmospheric spheres were of primary concern. Time, seasonal and diurnal, was measured by the ever-changing positions of the sun, moon, and stars across the sky,...
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A philosophical science fiction novel. Dynamic tension exists across the galaxy when elite Aristarchs seek to enslave free human society and expand absolute despotism over the Multiverse. A galaxy with aristocrats, genomic exploitation, faster than light technology and information encoded in the quantum Universe are existential challenges for John Dwight.
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Welcome to "Curious Minds Chronicles: 101 Bizarre and Surprising Tidbits Across the Universe." In this cosmic journey, we unveil the extraordinary and the unexpected lurking within the universe's vast expanse. Each of the 101 short facts invites you to explore the cosmic wonders that defy imagination- from the peculiar behavior of planets to the mysteries of black holes and the quantum realm. Join us on a concise odyssey, where each tidbit promises...
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"You Are Here is not just physics for poets, but as close to poetry or music as science is ever likely to get. Christopher Potter's narrative is as imaginative, ingenious, and elegantly concise as it is user-friendly." - Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind
"A personal, brilliant, and often amusing account . . . . An idiosyncratic, encyclopedic blitzkrieg of a book." -The Boston Globe
"The Verdict: Read." - Time
Christopher Potter's You Are...
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Richard S. Ellis is professor of astrophysics at University College London and a world-renowned observational astronomer who has made numerous discoveries about the nature and evolution of the universe. He lives in Cambridge, UK.
One of today's leading astronomers takes readers inside the decades-long search for the first galaxies and the origin of starlight
Astronomers are like time travelers,...
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Starting out from humankind's earliest ideas about the cosmos, this book gives the reader a clear overview of our current understanding of the universe, including big bang theories and the formation of stars and galaxies, as well as addressing open questions. The author shows how our present view gradually developed from observations, and also how the outcome of ongoing research may still change this view. The book brings together concepts in physics...
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The Universe, Scripture and Bubbles of Spacemass: a Comprehensive Intelligent Design View' exposes many of the contradictions of the mainstream evolutionary cosmological narrative, while offering well-articulated and solid alternatives to the same, from an intelligent design perspective. Building on his previous work, "Galaxies for Intelligently Designed Minds (NOT for 'Standard' Model Dummies)", which focussed mainly on solar systems organization,...
151) Vedic Cosmology
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We are situated in the fifty-first Brahma year of the existence of our Brahma.
Inside that Brahma year, we are in the primary Brahma day, called the Varaha Kalpa.
Inside that Brahma day, we are in the seventh manvantara and in the 28th maha yuga of that manvantara. This would put us at about the 454th maha yuga of the 1,000 maha yugas that include this day of Brahma.
Inside this maha yuga, we are in Kali Yuga. The 5100th year of Kali Yuga will...
152) The Planets
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A companion book to the critically acclaimed BBC series. The bestselling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuster, a groundbreaking exploration of our Solar System as it has never been seen before. Mercury, a lifeless victim of the Sun's expanding power. Venus, once thought to be lush and fertile, now known to be trapped within a toxic and boiling atmosphere. Mars, the red planet, doomed by the loss of its atmosphere. Jupiter,...
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Over the past two centuries scientific advances have made it clear that the universe is a story still unfolding. In this thought-provoking book, John F. Haught considers the deeper implications of this discovery. He contends that many others who have written books on life and the universe-including Stephen Hawking, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Dawkins-have overlooked a crucial aspect of cosmic history: the drama of life's awakening to interiority...
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Covering 13.8 billion years in some 100 pages, a concise, wryly intelligent history of everything, from the Big Bang to the advent of human civilization.
With wonder, wit, and flair-and in record time and space-geophysicist David Bercovici explains how everything came to be everywhere, from the creation of stars and galaxies to the formation of Earth's atmosphere and oceans, to the origin of life and human civilization. Bercovici marries humor and...
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An astonishing exploration of planet formation and the origins of life by one of the world's most innovative planetary geologists.
In 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 took the first photos of the far side of the moon. Even in their poor resolution, the images stunned scientists: the far side is an enormous mountainous expanse, not the vast lava-plains seen from Earth. Subsequent missions have confirmed this in much greater detail.
How could this...
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Professor Brian Cox and Robin Ince muse on multifaceted subjects involved in building a universe, with pearls of wisdom from leading scientists and comedians peppered throughout. Covering billions of concepts and conundrums, they tackle everything from the Big Bang to parallel universes, fierce creatures to extraterrestrial life, brain science to artificial intelligence. How to Build a Universe is an illuminating and inspirational celebration of science...
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An astronomer brings the mysteries of space down to earth in this accessible guide to cosmology, astrophysics, and the ageless wonder of the night sky.
The universe is big. Really big. And it gets bigger every day. In Cosmological Enigmas, Mark Kidger weaves together history, science, and science fiction to consider questions about the bigness of space and the strange objects that lie trembling at the edge of infinity.
What are quasars,...
159) Out of this World: Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics
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This book is an attempt to share some of the fascinating and exciting ideas of modern theoretical physics with a non-mathematical audience. I also hope to give some appreciation of the exceptionally creative people who have generated these ideas. I had no intention of writing a comprehensive history of these ideas, however; I apologize to those physicists whose important contributions I may have omitted. Several people have contributed directly to...
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"Steven S. Gubser, Winner of the 2017 Simons Investigator Award in Physics, Simons Foundation" "Frans Pretorius, Winner of the 2017 New Horizons Prize in Fundamental Physics" Steven S. Gubser (1972–2019) was professor of physics at Princeton University. His books include The Little Book of String Theory (Princeton). Frans Pretorius is professor of physics at Princeton. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Dive into a mind-bending exploration of...