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Mass human migrations into outer space may begin this century! Are Earth's inhabitants, prepared for this next giant leap? Millions of tax dollars are being, employed in NASA and Defense Department research facilities to answer this urgent question.
Can humankind migrate to space intelligently, in a civilized manner without real Star Wars? Are these justifiable economic, political, and philosophical reasons for undertaking such a vast project? What...
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Join the crew of space shuttle Enterprise as they prepare to take the first step into the twenty-first century. Step aboard the world's first reusable space vehicle with science writer Robert M. Powers for a cockpit view of a launch, orbit, re-entry, and return to earth. Preview the scheduled NASA shuttle missions in hundreds of line drawings and photographs of the crew at work in orbit. The shuttle system is the key to unlocking the next era of technology...
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"The acclaimed author of In Search of Schrödinger's Cat searches for life on other planets. Are we alone in the universe? Surely amidst the immensity of the cosmos there must be other intelligent life out there. Don't be so sure, says John Gribbin, one of today's best popular science writers. In this fascinating and intriguing new book, Gribbin argues that the very existence of intelligent life anywhere in the cosmos is, from an astrophysicist's...
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According to a recent survey, the most popular question about science from the general public was: what came before the Big Bang? We all know on some level what the Big Bang is, but we don't know how it became the accepted theory, or how we might know what came before. In Before the Big Bang, Brian Clegg (the critically acclaimed author of Upgrade Me and The God Effect) explores the history of this remarkable concept. From the earliest creation myths,...
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A Leading Figure in the Development of the New Cosmology Explains What It All Means
Among his peers, Alex Vilenkin is regarded as one of the most imaginative and creative cosmologists of our time. His contributions to our current understanding of the universe include a number of novel ideas, two of which-eternal cosmic inflation and the quantum creation of the universe from nothing-have provided a scientific foundation for the possible existence...
47) The Universe in a Mirror: The Saga of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Visionaries Who Built It
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"One of Booklist's Editors' Choice for Best Adult Titles for 2008" "Finalist for the 2008 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, American Astronautical Society" Robert Zimmerman is an award-winning science writer and historian whose work has appeared in Natural History, the Wall Street Journal, and Astronomy, among other leading publications. His books include Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary...
48) Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
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Detective thriller meets astrophysics in this adventure into neutrinos and the scientists who pursue them
The incredibly small bits of matter we call neutrinos may hold the secret to why antimatter is so rare, how mighty stars explode as supernovae, what the universe was like just seconds after the big bang, and even the inner workings of our own planet.
For more than eighty-years, adventurous minds from around the world have been chasing these...
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"Winner of the 2007 Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Cosmology and Astronomy, Association of American Publishers" "Shortlisted for the 2008 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books, General Prize" Stuart Clark is a former editor of the United Kingdom's best-selling astronomy magazine, Astronomy Now. He currently writes for the European Space Agency and is a regular contributor to such magazines as New Scientist and BBC Focus. He is the author of...
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Dan Hooper is a senior scientist and the head of the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Dark Cosmos and Nature's Blueprint (both Smithsonian/Harper Collins). He lives in Oak Park, Illinois. Twitter @DanHooperAstro
A new look at the first few seconds after the Big Bang-and how research into these moments continues...
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En este libro se han recogido las teorías más generalizadas sobre los planetas, sus movimientos y características en relación con el ser y el acontecer de los hechos humanos.
Con todo ello el autor construye el horóscopo de cada signo zodiacal, fruto de un cuidado análisis astrológico. La obra termina con unas breves nociones sobre la astrología china, claramente expuestas, en contraste con el hermetismo simbólico de sus signos.
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El 11 de febrero de 2016, el anuncio de un descubrimiento sacudió el mundo y fue tapa de los principales diarios: por primera vez se habían detectado ondas gravitacionales. ¡Sí! Esas que un siglo antes había predicho Albert Einstein en su teoría de la relatividad. La física argentina Gabriela González era entonces la líder y vocera de la colaboración científica LIGO, y las autoras y los autores de este libro fueron parte de ese descubrimiento...
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Para Françoise Hardy existen dos tipos de astrología. La más difundida procede de una charlatanería, a menudo endeble, que abandona los cimientos científicos de la astrología para limitarse a jugar con símbolos abstractos y admitir la creencia en un fatalismo absoluto; carente de cualquier relación seria con la astronomía, es capaz de poner las palabras más absurdas en boca del cielo astral. Por el contrario, la otra astrología, denominada...
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When scientists peer through a telescope at the distant stars in outer space or use a particle-accelerator to analyze the smallest components of matter, they discover that the same laws of physics govern the whole universe at all times and all places. Physicists call the eternal, ubiquitous constancy of the laws of physics symmetry. Symmetry is the basic underlying principle that defines the laws of nature and hence controls the universe. This all-important...
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IceCube Observatory, a South Pole instrument making the first actual observations of high-energy neutrinos, has been called the "weirdest" of the seven wonders of modern astronomy by Scientific American. In The Telescope in the Ice, Mark Bowen tells the amazing story of the people who built the instrument and the science involved.
Located near the U. S. Amundsen-Scott Research Station at the geographic South Pole, IceCube is unlike most telescopes...
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"Time and Space: Einstein's Theory of Relativity" is a compelling exploration of one of the most revolutionary concepts in the history of physics. Authored with clarity and depth, this book embarks on a journey through the intricate tapestry of Albert Einstein's groundbreaking theories, unraveling the profound implications they hold for our understanding of the cosmos.The narrative commences with a meticulous introduction to the precepts of classical...
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Objects in the Universe are subject to the continued actions of forces (accelerations) because of rotation, translation, electromagnetic, and gravitational interactions with nearby and distant surrounding bodies. Under many circumstances, we may neglect external accelerations because they might be of low magnitude compared to local accelerations. But that doesn't mean that they don't exist. Moreover, subtle differences in acceleration are the cause...
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Janna Levin is an Advanced Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University. She holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked previously at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics and the Center for Particle Astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Is the universe infinite, or is it just really big? Does nature abhor infinity? In startling and beautiful...
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La fascinación por los astros es una característica común de los seres humanos. Desde la antigüedad, todas las culturas han manifestado interés por explicar el universo y el lugar que ocupamos en él. Todos queremos enterarnos de los últimos descubrimientos sobre el cosmos; sin embargo, el torrente de información científica y la jerga que la acompaña nos intimida. En estas páginas el lector encontrará una presentación clara y pedagógica...
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Esta serie de entregas de Astronomía de Bolsillo, incluida en la Colección Biblioteca Comunidad UIS: Un libro para todos, es una iniciativa de la Escuela de Física de la Universidad Industrial de Santander para divulgar la Astronomía y la Astrofísica como complemento impreso al proyecto de convergencia de medios (microprogramas radiales, blog y microblog) transmitidos diariamente por las emisoras UIS y retransmitidos a través de varias emisoras...
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