Around the Universe in 1,000 Years
Author : Jerrold Pope
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 2012-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1467073792
Author : Jerrold Pope
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 2012-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1467073792
Author : Alan Lightman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 0593081323
The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between. Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom The Washington Post has called “the poet laureate of science writers,” explores these questions and more—from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang. Probable Impossibilities is a deeply engaged consideration of what we know of the universe, of life and the mind, and of things vastly larger and smaller than ourselves.
Author : Lawrence Maxwell Krauss
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Science
ISBN : 145162445X
This is a provocative account of the astounding new answers to the most basic philosophical question: Where did the universe come from and how will it end?
Author : Ray Kurzweil
Publisher : Rodale
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 2005-09-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0452286670
A leading scientist and an expert on human longevity explain how new discoveries in the fields of genomics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology could radically extend the human life expectancy and enhance physical and mental abilities, and introduce a cutting-edge program designed to enhance the immune system and slow the aging process on a cellular level. Reprint.
Author : National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309064064
This edition of Science and Creationism summarizes key aspects of several of the most important lines of evidence supporting evolution. It describes some of the positions taken by advocates of creation science and presents an analysis of these claims. This document lays out for a broader audience the case against presenting religious concepts in science classes. The document covers the origin of the universe, Earth, and life; evidence supporting biological evolution; and human evolution. (Contains 31 references.) (CCM)
Author : Emma Chapman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 1472962907
Astronomers have successfully observed a great deal of the Universe's history, from recording the afterglow of the Big Bang to imaging thousands of galaxies, and even to visualising an actual black hole. There's a lot for astronomers to be smug about. But when it comes to understanding how the Universe began and grew up we are literally in the dark ages. In effect, we are missing the first one billion years from the timeline of the Universe. This brief but far-reaching period in the Universe's history, known to astrophysicists as the 'Epoch of Reionisation', represents the start of the cosmos as we experience it today. The time when the very first stars burst into life, when darkness gave way to light. After hundreds of millions of years of dark, uneventful expansion, one by the one these stars suddenly came into being. This was the point at which the chaos of the Big Bang first began to yield to the order of galaxies, black holes and stars, kick-starting the pathway to planets, to comets, to moons, and to life itself. Incorporating the very latest research into this branch of astrophysics, this book sheds light on this time of darkness, telling the story of these first stars, hundreds of times the size of the Sun and a million times brighter, lonely giants that lived fast and died young in powerful explosions that seeded the Universe with the heavy elements that we are made of. Emma Chapman tells us how these stars formed, why they were so unusual, and what they can teach us about the Universe today. She also offers a first-hand look at the immense telescopes about to come on line to peer into the past, searching for the echoes and footprints of these stars, to take this period in the Universe's history from the realm of theoretical physics towards the wonder of observational astronomy.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Walter Russell
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,83 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Cosmology
ISBN :
Author : John Farndon
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781902947310
Contains key facts on topics such as dwarf stars, eclipses, planets, big bang. 8 yrs+
Author : Philip Bunting
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338772753
One girl's mission to find life in space leads to an out-of-this-world adventure perfect for the astronaut-in-training in your life. Una loves imagining a life in space. Life on Earth is just so-so. But how will she get there? Can she complete her mission to discover life in space? Oh! And did she remember to feed her goldfish? From award-winning creator Philip Bunting, Give Me Some Space is a delightful story that expertly merges nonfiction facts with imaginative play. Readers will love blasting off with Una, and learning along the way!