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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Our fascination with numbers begins when we are children, and continues, for most of us, throughout our lives. We start counting our fingers and toes, and end up balancing check books and calculating risk. So powerful is the appeal of numbers that many people ascribe to them a mystical significance. And there are some numbers whose importance even transcends the supernatural--these numbers work to explain our universe and how it behaves. In Cosmic...
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Five leading physicists (Justin Khoury, Rocky Kolb, Roger Penrose, Paul Steinhardt, Scott Tremaine) describe different aspects of some of today's most captivating mysteries, from dark matter and dark energy, to the cosmological constant problem, to the question of the peculiar state of entropy at the Big Bang.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where did these laws and these constants come from? And why are the laws so fruitful when written in the language of mathematics? Peter Atkins considers the minimum effort needed to equip the Universe with...
Author
Publisher
Prestel Verlag
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"What is life? It’s constantly moving, growing, reproducing, and dying. It’s happening now, all the time, and it’s everywhere around us. From little helicopter seed pods that float through the air to blue whales in the ocean, the world is filled with all different types of odd and familiar kinds of life. This whimsical picture book helps young readers see the connections between all living things"--Publisher's website.
7) Universe
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Children will find out about the universe, our solar system, observations of the starry skies, and the mind-blowing wonders of outer space. rom the birth of stars to the mysteries of black holes, the Universe has been constantly studied to understand how it works. Learn about icy planets and explosive stars, far-off galaxies that powerful telescopes looking deep into space have captured, observatories and astronomy, and whole new worlds discovered...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Relativity Made Relatively Easy presents an extensive study of Special Relativity and a gentle (but exact) introduction to General Relativity for undergraduate students of physics. Assuming almost no prior knowledge, it allows the student to handle all the Relativity needed for a university course, with explanations as simple, thorough, and engaging as possible.
The aim is to make manageable what would otherwise be regarded as hard; to make derivations...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Here's what it is about: For tens of thousands of years, the stars were our constant companions. In the glow of today's artificial lighting, when even professional astronomers study the universe by staring at screens rather than through eyepieces, we have forgotten this intimacy with the cosmos. Roberto Trotta is here to remind us: one of our species' most enduring and (literally) universal relationships has been with the night sky itself. In Starborn,...
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