Cosmology and the universe

THE FORETOLD, BOOK FOUR: THE FORESEEN — Watchers of the SkyEvery November, a minor meteor shower crosses the sky.

There is more to the universe than what we see and more to ourselves than who we are.

The universe has a shape.

This book is an account of my first encounter with Einstein's Special Relativity.

Veteran comet hunter and eloquent popular astronomy writer David H.

This book is published by an imprint of Globe Pequot Publishing Group.

We have always looked up at the sky and wondered.

Solemos conocer la ciencia a través de sus éxitos, pero la realidad es un poco más compleja.

This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About Astronomy, the human journey from watching stars for harvests and omens to discovering an expanding universe filled with galaxies, black holes, and invisible matter.

Ninety five percent of the universe is invisible.

In 1957, as Americans obsessed over the launch of the Soviet Sputnik satellite, another less noticed space-based scientific revolution was taking off.

In 1957, as Americans obsessed over the launch of the Soviet Sputnik satellite, another less noticed space-based scientific revolution was taking off.

This is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About Quantum Gravity, the search for the missing theory that could finally make the very large and the very small speak the same language.

El astrofísico Hervé Dole expone los resultados más sobresalientes de la cosmología contemporánea, fruto de décadas de avances teóricos y observacionales.

What if everything we believe about time is wrong - not the mathematics, but the story we tell about it?

A cultural history of the American faith in alien life, from the Puritans to Heaven's GateOver the past three centuries, belief in extraterrestrial life has had a profound influence on American religion.

A cultural history of the American faith in alien life, from the Puritans to Heaven's GateOver the past three centuries, belief in extraterrestrial life has had a profound influence on American religion.

PrefaceEvery piece of metal has a history.

Two leading physicists discuss the importance of the Higgs Boson, the future of particle physics, and the mysteries of the universe yet to be unraveled.

Two leading physicists discuss the importance of the Higgs Boson, the future of particle physics, and the mysteries of the universe yet to be unraveled.

'Brilliant and fascinating.

To this day, humanity still has no definitive answer to one of the most fundamental questions concerning its own existence: from whom or from what does it originate, how did it come into being, and what is the true cause of its existence?

For thousands of years, humanity has recognised something profound about light.

Beyond Solitude: The Science and Mystery of Cosmic Civilisations is your smart, accessible companion to the biggest live investigation in science: the search for life and intelligence beyond Earth.

The Forewarned proved the sky remembers.

Liebe Lesende, als ich vor einer Gruppe von Schulerinnen und Schulern von meinem Studium erzahlte, lie die Frage nicht lange auf sich warten: Was ist ein Schwarzes Loch?

Un pasaporte para acceder a las maravillas de nuestro cosmos cambiante.

En este ensayo, el profesor Moltó busca respuestas a preguntas ancestrales sobre el origen de la vida y el cosmos y utiliza herramientas científicas modernas, así como la sabiduría tradicional para encontrar respuestas aproximativas a estas complejas cuestiones.

Something struck the Earth 12,900 years ago — not once, but in a swarm, delivering the force of hundreds of nuclear weapons across multiple continents in the span of hours.

This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About the Shape of the Universe, the story of one of cosmology's oldest and biggest questions: what does the whole cosmos look like?

Tony Rothman, profesor de física en Harvard y Princeton, nos guía paso a paso entre grandes temas que ocupan a los cosmólogos contemporáneos, desde la materia oscura a la gravedad cuántica.

Predichas hace un siglo de forma asombrosa por Albert Einstein en su Teoría de la relatividad general (publicada en esta colección) y buscadas a tientas y con escepticismo por los científicos desde entonces, las ondas gravitatorias -tenues y escurridizas vibraciones del tejido mismo de la realidad que abren una nueva ventana al cosmos- sólo fueron detectadas por primera vez en 2015 gracias al experimento estadounidense LIGO, reforzado en breve por el detector europeo VIRGO, en el cual Matteo Barsuglia, autor de este libro, desempeña un papel central.

This book provides a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to one of the most exciting frontiers in astrophysics today: the quest to understand how the oldest and most distant galaxies in our universe first formed.

Studies of stars and stellar populations, and the discovery and characterization of exoplanets, are being revolutionized by new satellite and telescope observations of unprecedented quality and scope.

From Nobel Prize-winning physicist P.

SSQG SCALER SONIC QUANTUM GEOMETRY AND THE UNIFIED PHYSICS OF FREQUENCY UNVEILS A REVOLUTIONARY FRAMEWORK THAT SHATTERS CONVENTIONAL UNDERSTANDING, UNIFYING THE  FUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF PHYSICS WITH THE PRIMORDIAL POWER OF FREQUENCY.

Science is often presented as humanity's most reliable path to truth.

This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About the Inevitable Milky Way's Collision with Andromeda, the story of how galaxies crash, merge, ignite, and transform across cosmic time.

After the huge national and international success of 'Longitude' and 'Gallileo's Daughter', Dava Sobel tells the human story of the nine planets of our solar system.

This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About How to Destroy a Black Hole, the story of whether the universe's most extreme objects can ever truly be destroyed.

Twenty-seven percent of the universe is made of something that has never been seen, touched, or detected in a laboratory.

The Cosmos: A Complete Book on the Universe, Existence, and Meaning is an expansive yet deeply human exploration of reality, from the birth of the universe to the inner life of consciousness and the enduring search for purpose.

The dinosaurs are not as gone as you think.

What is time?

Earth is often described as a planet.

This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About the End of Everything, the story of the ultimate fate of the universe.

This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About the Timescape Model, a bold alternative to dark energy and the standard story of cosmic acceleration.

Stars do not simply burn and die.

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST, OBSERVER, NEW SCIENTIST, BBC FOCUS, INDEPENDENT AND WASHINGTON POST 'A rollicking tour of the wildest physics.