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 fisica en Harvard y Princeton, nos guia paso a paso entre grandes temas que ocupan a los cosmologos contemporaneos, desde la materia oscura a la gravedad cuantica.
Predichas hace un siglo de forma asombrosa por Albert Einstein en su Teoria de la relatividad general (publicada en esta coleccion) y buscadas a tientas y con escepticismo por los cientificos desde entonces, las ondas gravitatorias -tenues y escurridizas vibraciones del tejido mismo de la realidad que abren una nueva ventana al cosmos- solo 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, desempena 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This book is a Weekend Pocketbook on Everything You Should Know About Lambda Cold Dark Matter (Lambda-CDM), the standard model cosmologists use to explain the history, structure, and expansion of the universe.
From the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia.
Math Idolatry: Canonization of ComplexityDismantle the Fraud of Consensus ScienceThe intuitively bothered reader has already traversed the DPE framework to its structural conclusion:Book 1-3: The establishment of the DPE axiom proved that eternity stands as the default state and time stands as the rupture.
An introduction to the universe covering everything from the big bang and our understanding of the universe over time, to the earth's formation, the Sun and how it affects us, the Moon and planets, black holes and galaxies.
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time-war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, race, and tribalism-in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all.
A personal exploration of the deepest questions about consciousness, free will, and our place in the universe—for anyone who has ever wondered what it means to be atoms that can wonder.
