Author : Brian Thomas Swimme
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0300171900
The authors tell the epic story of the universe from an inspired new perspective, weaving the findings of modern science together with enduring wisdom found in the humanistic traditions of the West, China, India, and indigenous peoples. This book is part of a larger project that includes a documentary film, educational DVD series, and Web site.
Author : William Norris Clarke
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 38,96 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823212088
W. Norris Clarke's metaphysics of the universe as a journey rests on six major positions: the unrestricted dynamism of the mind, the primacy of the act of existence, the participation structure of reality, and the person, considered as both the starting point of philosophy and the source of the categories needed for a flexible contemporary metaphysics. Reflecting on his conscious life and the universe around him, the finite person mounts by a two-fold path to its Infinite source, who, though immutable in His natural being, is mutable in the intentional being of His personal knowledge and love. The personal God is the efficient cause from whom the universe comes and the final cause to whom it returns. Less optimistic than Norris Clarke, John Caputo wonders about his metaphysics of the person. In a hermeneutical interpretation of the human face, the person through whom Being sounds discloses an ambiguous Being that both reveals and conceals itself. Far from grounding a casualascent to God, hermeneutical phenomenology allows us no more than the right to interpret the world and its transcendent source through our own free decision. Although impressed by Norris Clarke's attempt to introduce mutability into God, Lewis Ford still finds Clarke's Thomistic God unacceptable. As a Whiteheadian, he proposes in place of Thomas' God, whose perfection consists in static unity, a God whose perfection consists in a never-ending process of unification. John Smith argues against the traditional dichotomy made between the ontological and cosmological arguments. Rather than opposed methods of proving God's existence, they should be taken as complementary journeys to the divine presence which discloses itself, although diversely, in the soul and in the world. There are parallels between Smith's historical study of two arguments and Clarke's two-fold path to God. Yet Smith is critical of Thomas' cosmological journey to God and does not share Clarke's confidence in its validity. Significant studies in their own right, the three essays as a group challenge Clarke's whole metaphysics of the universe as a journey. Meeting the challenge, Clarke clarifies and refines his own thought. An account of Clarke's philosophy by Gerald A. McCool, S.J. precedes this unified and stimulating philosophical discussion.
Author : New Scientist
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1473670454
There's a whole universe out there ... and this book is your journey into space. Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going. Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way? The answer is: mostly nothing. Space is astonishingly, mind-blowingly empty. As you travel through the void between galaxies your spaceship encounters nothing more exciting than the odd hydrogen molecule. But when it does come across something more exotic: wow! First and most obviously, stars and planets. Some are familiar from our own backyard: yellow suns, rocky planets like Mars, gas and ice giants like Jupiter and Neptune. But there are many more: giant stars, red and white dwarfs, super-earths and hot Jupiters. Elsewhere are swirling clouds of dust giving birth to stars, and infinitely dense regions of space-time called black holes. These clump together in the star clusters we call galaxies, and the clusters of galaxies we call... galaxy clusters. And that is just the start. As we travel further we encounter ever more weird, wonderful and dangerous entities: supernovas, supermassive black holes, quasars, pulsars, neutron stars, black dwarfs, quark stars, gamma ray bursts and cosmic strings. A Journey Through The Universe is a grand tour of the most amazing celestial objects and how they fit together to build the cosmos. As for the end of the journey - nobody knows. But getting there will be fun.
Author : Jay M. Pasachoff
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : 9780030972836
Author : Malcolm Edwards
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780831787974
Author : Christophe Galfard
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 125006953X
"If Ms. Frizzle were a physics student of Stephen Hawking, she might have written THE UNIVERSE IN YOUR HAND, a wild tour through the reaches of time and space, from the interior of a proton to the Big Bang to the rough suburbs of a black hole. It's friendly, excitable, erudite, and cosmic." —Jordan Ellenberg, New York Times besteselling author of How Not To Be Wrong Quantum physics, black holes, string theory, the Big Bang, dark matter, dark energy, parallel universes: even if we are interested in these fundamental concepts of our world, their language is the language of math. Which means that despite our best intentions of finally grasping, say, Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, most of us are quickly brought up short by a snarl of nasty equations or an incomprehensible graph. Christophe Galfard's mission in life is to spread modern scientific ideas to the general public in entertaining ways. Using his considerable skills as a brilliant theoretical physicist and successful young adult author, The Universe in Your Hand employs the immediacy of simple, direct language to show us, not explain to us, the theories that underpin everything we know about our universe. To understand what happens to a dying star, we are asked to picture ourselves floating in space in front of it. To get acquainted with the quantum world, we are shrunk to the size of an atom and then taken on a journey. Employing everyday similes and metaphors, addressing the reader directly, and writing stories rather than equations renders these astoundingly complex ideas in an immediate and visceral way. Utterly captivating and entirely unique, The Universe in Your Hand will find its place among other classics in the field.
Author : Mark Westmoquette
Publisher : Leaping Hare Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0711252831
The Mindful Universe takes you on a journey through the outer cosmos, exploring its inherently spiritual nature and mindful connection to our inner cosmos.
Author : Dr. Mike Goldsmith
Publisher : Kingfisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780753468760
It is hard to conceptualize both the scale and the mind-boggling diversity of the Universe, but this book changes that. Come along on a vivid experiential journey to explore some of the Universe's most intriguing places, and along the way understand the amazing history of the Cosmos. A series of rich, full-bleed spreads give stunning snapshots of distant galactic locations as the reader journeys further and further from Earth—from red cold Mars (3 light minutes away) to a massive Supernova (10,000 light years away) and beyond. The eye-popping visuals take center stage here—the writing is concise and unobtrusive, allowing the reader a visceral sense of awe and wonder. A full reference section at the back of the book brings together the scientific information in a timeline for further exploration. This exciting new approach will capture the imagination of today's visual thinkers like never before.
Author : Tom Vassos
Publisher : Inspiring Universe Collection
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781796297102
I challenge you to join me on a journey, a journey that is sure to astonish, educate and inspire you. Immerse yourself in a voyage through space and time... to the farthest outreaches of the universe trillions of kilometers/miles away, back 14 billion years in the past and onward billions of years into the future to learn about our fate. This book is part of THE INSPIRING UNIVERSE COLLECTION. This book series will take you on a journey that spans the disciplines of astronomy (a tour of the universe), cosmology (a study of the birth, evolution and fate of the universe) and philosophy (your place in the cosmos). We will admire the view from Planet Earth, travel upward to the International Space Station, visit the planets/dwarf planets in our Solar System (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) and explore our Milky Way Galaxy. We will then explore the most extreme things in the universe... the biggest, fastest, tallest and most powerful... black holes, neutron stars, magnetars, pulsars, supernova explosions, galaxies, nebulas, stars and much more. Our cosmology journey will attempt to answer the most profound questions about the birth, evolution and fate of the universe. Are we alone? How was the universe born? (Big Bang or Big Bounce?) How will it all end? (Big Crunch, Big Chill/Freeze or Big Rip?) In the end, your view of the universe and your place in it will be transformed forever. Immerse Yourself in an Experience, Not Just a Book: This book is loaded with videos and audio podcasts that can be listened to and viewed on your smartphone, tablet, laptop and TV. It includes activity guides, links to apps for real world stargazing and a guided tour of our Solar System and the universe in a three-dimensional (3D) virtual reality world. Play the videos on your TV and transform your family room from being a place where you waste time into a place where you learn about the world around you. Who Should Buy This Book? Adults, seniors, teachers and students... anyone with a passion for learning about the world around us. If you want to inspire and profoundly change a child's life, buy them this book. Buy this book for friends, family and the elderly to inspire them and change the way they view the world. Video Introduction: Start your journey by watching this 7-minute music video on YouTube: "An Inspirational Tour of the Miraculous Universe #4" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOEd2xA-2ds). It includes several amazing images of the universe and moving quotes from the author Tom Vassos, and famous astronomers, cosmologists and astrophysicists. Upcoming Books/eBooks in THE INSPIRING UNIVERSE COLLECTION: "Awe-Inspiring Discoveries about the Universe - Breakthrough Astronomy Insights" "The Birth, Evolution and Fate of the Universe - Breakthrough Cosmology Insights" "Astonishing Space Exploration Discoveries - Breakthrough Astronomy Science" "The Ultimate Guided Tour of the Universe - A Journey Through Space and Time" Inspirational Quotes "We will never have all the answers about the universe, but the quest to unravel its mysteries can be our greatest inspiration."-- Tom Vassos "Unraveling the mysteries of the universe would not have been possible without the human intelligence, passion and imagination of astronomers, astronauts and theoretical physicists like Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Edwin Hubble, Stephen Hawking, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Carl Sagan, Alan Guth, Chris Hadfield, Neil Armstong, Buzz Aldrin and countless scientists, engineers, mathematicians, astronomers, researchers, science educators, astrophysicists and astronauts." -- Tom Vassos
Author : Anne Rooney
Publisher : Story of Everything
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 2021-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781789508666
