General Physics category: 2746 books
How To
Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer
For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex,...
by Richard Lighthouse
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
This short technical note describes a prototype design for a Time Machine described in previous and associated papers by the author. Time Travel is made possible by exploiting the fact that our universe literally blinks off and on at a very high frequency. While the author has used his best efforts...
by Richard Lighthouse
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
This short technical note provides a hypothesis regarding the nature of the speed of light. We know that no speed actually exists as a fundamental property in the Electrical Universe. A possible explanation and suggestions for research are provided. Description and mathematical explanation are summarized....
Detonation
Theory and Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Detonation, as the authors point out, differs from other forms of combustion "in that all the important energy transfer is by mass flow in strong compression waves, with negligible contributions from other processes like heat conduction." Experiments have shown that these waves have a complex...
Biophysics
Tools and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
An Up-to-Date Toolbox for Probing Biology
Biophysics: Tools and Techniques covers the experimental and theoretical tools and techniques of biophysics. It addresses the purpose, science, and application of all physical science instrumentation and analysis methods used in current research labs.
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by Paul I. Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
The atmosphere is the thin, diffuse fluid that envelops the Earth's surface. Despite its apparent fragility, the existence of this fluid is vital for human and other life on Earth. In this Very Short Introduction Paul Palmer describes the physical and chemical characteristics of different layers in...
Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos
The Rise of the Integral Vision of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2006
Presents a revolutionary new theory that bridges the divide between science and spirituality
• Discloses the ramifications of non-localized consciousness and how the physical world and spiritual experience are two aspects of the same reality
• Includes contributions from Jane Goodall,...
Dancing in the Dark
The “Waltz in Wonder” of Quantum Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2009
In Dancing in the Dark: The Waltz in Wonder of Quantum Metaphysics, Dr. Ronald Keast examines the exciting and spooky scientific theories about the fundamental nature of reality and truth that have been proposed by the revolutionary science of quantum mechanics. These quantum theories, which are at...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
The nature of reality has been a long-debated issue among scientists and philosophers. In 1930, Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein had a long conversation on the nature of reality. This conversation has been widely quoted and discussed by scientists, philosophers and scholars from the literary...
Information and the Nature of Reality
From Physics to Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Many scientists regard mass and energy as the primary currency of nature. In recent years, however, the concept of information has gained importance. Why? In this book, eminent scientists, philosophers and theologians chart various aspects of information, from quantum information to biological and...
by Paul Davies
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
With his unique knack for making cutting-edge theoretical science effortlessly accessible, world-renowned physicist Paul Davies now tackles an issue that has boggled minds for centuries: Is time travel possible? The answer, insists Davies, is definitely yes—once you iron out a few kinks in the space-time...
The Edge of the Sky
All You Need to Know About the All-There-Is
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
From the big bang to black holes, from dark matter to dark energy, from the origins of the universe to its ultimate destiny, The Edge of the Sky tells the story of the most important discoveries and mysteries in modern cosmology-with a twist. The book's lexicon is limited to the thousand most common...
An Introduction to Complex Systems
Society, Ecology, and Nonlinear Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
This undergraduate text explores a variety of large-scale phenomena - global warming, ice ages, water, poverty - and uses these case studies as a motivation to explore nonlinear dynamics, power-law statistics, and complex systems. Although the detailed mathematical descriptions of these topics can...
How Nature Works
the science of self-organized criticality
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Self-organized criticality, the spontaneous development of systems to a critical state, is the first general theory of complex systems with a firm mathematical basis. This theory describes how many seemingly desperate aspects of the world, from stock market crashes to mass extinctions, avalanches...