Four independent research threads — funded by the Department of Defense, validated by NASA, published in peer-reviewed journals — all pointed the same direction: electromagnetism and gravity can be coupled more strongly than physics allows.
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.
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.
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.
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?
The Distance Ladder – Climbing from Earth to the Edge of the Observable Universe is a guided exploration of cosmic scale unlike anything most readers have ever encountered.
Graduate students in the natural sciences-including not only geophysics and space physics but also atmospheric and planetary physics, ocean sciences, and astronomy-need a broad-based mathematical toolbox to facilitate their research.
Today's standard textbooks treat the theoretical structure of electric and magnetic fields, but their emphasis is on electromagnetic radiation and static-electric and magnetic fields.
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.
A graduate-level textbook on the astrophysics of binary star systems and their evolutionPhysics of Binary Star Evolution is an up-to-date textbook on the astrophysics and evolution of binary star systems.
A short, graduate-level synthesis of recent developments in theoretical physics, from a pioneer in the fieldLectures on the Infrared Structure of Gravity and Gauge Theory presents an accessible, graduate-level synthesis of a frontier research area in theoretical physics.
Bewildering features of modern physics, such as relativistic space-time structure and the peculiarities of so-called quantum statistics, challenge traditional ways of conceiving of objects in space and time.
Newton's laws of motion and his universal law of gravitation described mathematically the motion of two bodies undergoing mutual gravitational attraction.
In this book, a distinguished expert introduces plasma physics from the ground up, presenting it as a comprehensible field that can be grasped largely on the basis of physical intuition and qualitative reasoning, similar to other fields of physics.
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.
High-energy astrophysics involves the study of exceedingly dynamic and energetic phenomena occurring near the most extreme celestial objects known to exist, such as black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs, and supernova remnants.
Deep within galaxies like the Milky Way, astronomers have found a fascinating legacy of Einstein's general theory of relativity: supermassive black holes.
A cosmic perspective on carbonits importance in the universe and our livesWhen we think of carbon, we might first think of a simple element near the top of the periodic table: symbol C, atomic number 6.
A cosmic perspective on carbonits importance in the universe and our livesWhen we think of carbon, we might first think of a simple element near the top of the periodic table: symbol C, atomic number 6.
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.
Astronomy 101, 2nd Edition is an easy-to-understand guide to astronomy for beginners, covering groundbreaking discoveries from the past decadelike the detection of gravitational waves, the imaging of black holes, and the James Webb Space Telescopes revelations about early galaxies and exoplanet atmospheres.
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.
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.
