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This is the inside story of one of the earliest successful U.S. satellites, a fascinating Cold War–era chronicle of the nation's earliest battles and triumphs in the Space Race. It recounts the origins, development, and results of Project Vanguard, a pioneering venture in the exploration of outer space. Primarily an analysis of the project's scientific and technical challenges, this volume documents onboard experiments, instrumentation, tracking...
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NUEVA TEORA SOBRE EL ORIGEN DEL UNIVERSO Y EL ORIGEN DE LA VIDA! La teora de la Fotognesis afirma que bajo la gua y cdigos de la Energa Original, todo lo existente del universo se origin del elemento ms fundamental, el sin peso ni carga elctrica, ultra energtico Fotn Original. El fotn posee energa cintica y energa potencial; nico elemento codificado, constituyente de la energa, capaz de realizar incontables combinaciones y funciones. Al ir generando...
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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...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016" John Asher Johnson is professor of astronomy at Harvard University.
An authoritative primer on the cutting-edge science of planet hunting
Alien worlds have long been a staple of science fiction. But today, thanks to modern astronomical instrumentation and the achievements of many enterprising observational astronomers, the existence of planets outside our solar system-also known as exoplanets-has...
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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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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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Highlights the most recent developments in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), and advocates a diverse range of approaches to make SETI increasingly more powerful and effective in the years to come.
In April 2010, fifty years to the month after the first experiment in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), scholars from a range of disciplines-including astronomy, mathematics, anthropology, history, and cognitive science-gathered...
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Esta obra, completa y rica en ilustraciones, escrita por expertos astrónomos, le enseñará las nociones indispensables para observar el cielo: el origen de las estrellas y sus diferentes categorías (simples, dobles, variables, supernovas, enanas blancas, púlsares...), los demás objetos celestes (cúmulos estelares, nebulosas, galaxias...); el origen de los planetas de nuestro sistema solar, sus órbitas, sus satélites; los instrumentos más...
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1. Determination of particle size, particle size distribution using sieving method.
2. Determination of particle size, particle size distribution using microscopic method.
3. Determination of bulk density, true density and porosity.
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5. Determination of influence of lubricant on angle of repose.
6. Determination of viscosity of liquid using Ostwald's viscometer.
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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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"Winner of the 2012 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award, American Astronomical Society" Abraham Loeb is professor of astronomy and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at Harvard University.
A concise introduction to cosmology and how light first emerged in the universe
Though astrophysicists have developed a theoretical framework for understanding how the first stars and galaxies formed, only now are we able to begin testing those...
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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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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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