The Big Questions series enables renowned experts to tackle the 20 most fundamental and frequently asked questions of a major branch of science or philosophy.
Die Jagd nach der Weltformel – über 20 Wochen auf der Spiegel-Bestseller-ListeEine Harvard-Physikerin sorgt mit ihrem Buch über verborgene Dimensionen des Universums für Furore.
Das Geheimnis der Schwarzen LöcherSie sind eines der größten Rätsel im Universum: Schwarze Löcher, kollabierte Sterne, deren Anziehungskraft so groß ist, dass sie alles in sich hineinziehen, was in ihren Einflussbereich gelangt.
In A Brief History of Black Holes, award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics.
Stephen Hawking described it as 'the discovery of the century, if not of all time', yet the scientists who first detected the cosmic radiation that was identified as the afterglow of the big bang had to admit that it was more by accident than intention.
As a student, stargazer, or lover of our galaxy, space and the infinite, there is no resource for this price that in 6 pages can show you the universe this completely yet succinctly.
És un llibre amè i divulgatiu, en què l'autor explica curiositats com la formació de les primeres galàxies o perquè l'aigua és salada, o la hipòtesi de quan es preveu que s'esgotin les reserves del petroli.
La apasionante historia del estudio del universo, desde la Antigüedad, la revolución heliocéntrica y los grandes astrónomos hasta los conocimientos más actuales de astrofísica.
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The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny.
The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny.
The full story of man's attempt to discover the moment that time began, from James Ussher's confident assertion in 1650 that the world was 5,654 years old to the Hubble Space telescope's images of a world 13 billion years old, with a starry cast of eccentrics, mystics, scientists and visonaries.
Your Word is Your Wand Florence Scovel Shinn - Miss Shinn was an artist, an author and a metaphysics teacher in New York in the early part of the 20th century.
'If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe' - Carl SaganInspired by Sagan's famous line, How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch sets out on a journey to unearth everything we know about our universe: how it started, how we found out, and what we still have left to discover .
