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"The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist. What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly,...
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"Roger Penrose, Co-Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences" Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. Roger Penrose is a Nobel Prize–winning physicist and the author of Cycles of Time and The Road to Reality (both Vintage). He is the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Oxford.
From two of the world's great physicists-Stephen...
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"The Solar System. Dinosaurs. Donkey Kong. What is the missing link? Surprisingly enough, it's meteorites. They explain our past, constructed our present, and could define our future. Impact argues that Earth would be a lifeless, inhospitable piece of rock without being fortuitously assaulted with meteorites throughout the history of the planet. These bombardments transformed Earth's early atmosphere and delivered the complex organic molecules that...
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"We all know the Sun, the powerhouse of our solar system, but what about Luyten's Flare, the Rosino-Zwicky Object, or Chanal's variable star? For those whose curiosity takes them far beyond Earth's atmosphere, The Secret Life of Stars offers a personal and readily understood introduction to some of the Galaxy's most remarkable stars. Written by award-winning astronomer Lisa Harvey-Smith, each chapter explains various different and unusual stars and...
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"So you've fallen in love with space and now you want to see it for yourself, right? You want to witness the birth of a star, or visit the black hole at the center of our galaxy? You want to know if there are aliens out there, or how to travel though a wormhole? You want the wonders of the universe revealed before your very eyes? Well stop, because all that will probably kill you. From mundane comets in our solar backyard to exotic remnants of the...
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"Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility--and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events, we must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a species. World-renowned physicist and futurist Michio Kaku explores...
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In the dramatic tradition of the best-selling Longitude, Parallax charts the historical path of observational astronomy's most daunting challenge: measuring the distance to a star.
The greatest scientific minds applied themselves in vain to the problem across the millennia, beginning with the ancient Greeks. Not until the nineteenth century would three astronomers, armed with the best telescopes of the age, race to conquer this astronomical Everest-their...
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This book advances a number of conjectures describing gravitational and inertial interactions and time dilation. A model is described that explains the gravitational and inertial interactions in a form that unlike geometric models depends on the exchange of particles. Time dilation has been defined as the decrease in the rate of flow of time in a frame moving with respect to an outside observer. In contrast to this definition, this book characterizes...
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The prospectus of humans living, working, and establishing communities in space can no longer be dismissed as the romantic notions of science fiction writers and space buffs. With the launch of the space shuttle human kind will enter a new era in space exploration, one giant step closer to the goal of human colonization. Our understanding of man's role in space is maturing, and the myths of life in space as a slick Buck Rogers episode or a scene from...
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Using Space to Save Earth
Veteran science journalist William E Burrows offers a bold new mission for the U.S. space program: to protect the Earth from the ever-growing number of perils that threaten our way of life — and even our very survival.
We are living through one of the most dangerous times in human history. Nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons technology are proliferating, and missile technology is falling into more and more hands....
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Se presenta en este libro una selección de los escritos de Luis Estrada Martínez, realizados a lo largo de una notable carrera académica que abarcó seis décadas. Estos trabajos conforman el testimonio único de una vida dedicada al estudio y la comprensión, hasta donde lo permiten las capacidades humanas, de la naturaleza de las cosas; del universo y del caudal de hechos físicos, químicos y biológicos que lo constituyen. Fiel a su lugar y...
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¿Qué es la física? Según Albert Einstein, la ciencia cuyos asombrosos descubrimientos revolucionaron nuestra concepción del Universo no es más que un refinamiento del pensar ordinario.
Si es así ¿por qué ha de permanecer oculta al ciudadano común?
Ponerla al alcance de todos es el desafío que enfrenta con singular éxito Francisco Claro en estas breves páginas. ¿Qué son los agujeros negros? ¿Cuáles son los secretos del átomo? ¿Cómo...
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To advance a model describing attributes of nature, we are free to claim properties of the model that we believe support those attributes. Absent real experiments we can perform thought experiments to evaluate whether the assumed properties of the model support the attributes we're attempting to model. At the same time, we must consider alternative models that may also support those attributes. Our model is not validated unless we can invalidate the...
15) Full Free Motion of Celestial Bodies Around a Central Mass - Why Do They Mostly Orbit in the Equator
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The aim of this book is to provide a more efficient way to calculate and predict orbits and trajectories, not only for celestial bodies, but also for artificial satellites we send outside our atmosphere, and for ballistic. The equations presented here might also help improve weather forecasts and perhaps predict atmospheric behavior more precisely. Nowadays, we know that gravity is an electromagnetic (EM) wave of atomic origin caused by a kind of...
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Charles D. Bailyn is the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University. He is currently serving as dean of faculty at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. He was awarded the 2009 Bruno Rossi Prize from the American Astronomical Society for his work on measuring the masses of black holes.
A sophisticated introduction to how astronomers identify, observe, and understand black holes
Emitting no radiation or any other kind of...
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An adventure in scientific discovery Pluto, the farthermost planet in the solar system, some 3,673-million mites from the Sun, was, discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in 1930. The fiftieth anniversary of Pluto's discovery will be celebrated in 1980 and OUT OF THE DARKNESS: THE PLANET PLUTO tells the exciting scientific story of the twenty-five year search for a planet X beyond Neptune, and its discovery-the only planet found in...
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Fundamentals of Living and Non-Living Universes addresses the most fundamental law that governs the known non-living universe and its extension into the living universes. The author discusses major misconceptions regarding both realms. He introduces three major concepts for the first time:
Infinity wall, which argues with an ever-expanding universe theory that is currently widely accepted in scientific society
Law of spontaneity, which describes...
19) Hurlburt Effect
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Hurlburt Effect depicts the effect of total mass of unobservable space on quantum levels and radiation of the astrophysics big bang hole on the unobservable universe and the localized, observable big bang and observable universe. There were major shifts in mass and density of the structures of the earlier, larger unobservable universe with the unobservable universe's later, smaller big bang. The most surrounding space is the big bang hole which caused...
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Here is Dr. Wernher von Braun's incredible story, from his early years in Germany, where he gave birth to modern rocketry, to his arrival in the United States and his launching of the first American satellite, the first man on the moon and other stunning space exploration feats.
"Every page of Wernher von Braun's life is a monument to the drama of adventure. Few people have been fighting so hard and, indeed, very few have been subject to so much...
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