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Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is one of the leading physicists of her generation, at work on the origins of spacetime at the intersection of particle physics and astrophysics. She is also one of the fewer than one hundred Black women to earn a PhD in physics. In The Disordered Cosmos, Prescod-Weinstein shares with readers her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it (minus the boring parts). Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what's happening in the universe. Our senses and intuition routinely mislead us. The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) tells the story of how we came to suppress our monkey minds and perceive the true nature of reality. Written with wit and humor,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This course discusses the scientific stories behind 10 of the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) most spectacular images. The lectures addresses the images one by one from near to far, beginning with the solar system, then on to stars and nebulae in the Milky Way Galaxy, individual galaxies, systems of galaxies, and finally the universe at large. Each lecture emphasizes the HST's unique imaging capabilities which have made its discoveries possible.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
"While it's true that there are (at least) forty-two grudges to hold against the universe, the good news is that there is also one very good reason to forgive them all and embrace the wild, improbable fact that we are alive (for now) and we should take advantage of it while we can. 42 Reasons to Hate the Universe (And One Reason Not To) is a hilarious, no-holds-barred exploration of all the reasons we shouldn't exist―but somehow do anyway. Rooted...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Venture through our solar system in an epic exploration of the universe and its mysteries. Go on an exhilarating voyage through the cosmos. Witness the sun's birth at the dawn of our solar system, and its death, billions of years in the future; explore the possibility of a human settlement on Mars; and learn about the devastating threats posed by the meteorites, comets, and asteroids that routinely collide with Earth. From the farthest planets and...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the past decade, Paul Halpern has brought readers three stunning histories of science -- Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cats, The Quantum Labyrinth, and Synchronicity -- that reveal the twisted, bizarre, and illuminating stories of physics' greatest thinkers and ideas. In Flashes of Creation, Halpern turns to what might be the biggest story of them all: the discovery of the origins of the universe and everything in it. Today, the Big Bang...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know?There are many different versions of our creation story. This book tells the version according to modern science. It is a unique account, starting at the Big Bang and travelling right up to the emergence of humans as...
153) White holes
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. We slip beyond its horizon and tumble down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we see geometry fold. Time and space pull and stretch. And finally, at the black hole's core, space and time dissolve, and a white hole is born. Rovelli has dedicated his career to uniting the time-warping ideas of general relativity and the perplexing uncertainties of quantum mechanics....
156) Nazca desert mystery
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
One of the world's greatest ancient enigmas, the Nazca lines are a dense network of criss-crossinglines, geometric shapes, and animal figures etched across 200 square miles of Peruvian desert. Who created them and why?
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"The Language of Creation is a commentary on the primeval stories form the book of Genesis. ... this commentary attempts to interpret the Bible from its own cosmological perspective. By contemplating the ancient biblical model of the universe, The Language of Creation demonstrates why these stories are foundational to western science and civilization. ... The final result of this contemplation is a vision of the cosmos centered on the role of human...
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