Cosmology category: 730 books
Hyperspace
A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 1994
Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Can we change the past? Are there gateways to parallel universes? All of us have pondered such questions, but there was a time when scientists dismissed these notions as outlandish speculations. Not any more. Today, they are the focus...
The Eerie Silence
Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
One of the world’s leading scientists explains why—and how—the search for intelligent life beyond Earth should be expanded.
Fifty years ago, a young astronomer named Frank Drake first pointed a radio telescope at nearby stars in the hope of picking up a signal from an alien civilization....
by Prof. Brian Cox, Robin Ince, Alexandra Feachem
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
The Infinite Monkey Cage, the legendary BBC Radio 4 programme, brings you this irreverent celebration of scientific marvels. Join us on a hectic leap through the grand and bizarre ideas conjured up by human imagination, from dark matter to consciousness via neutrinos and earthworms. Professor Brian...
by My Ebook Publishing House
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Experience the cosmos as never before with UNIVERSE: The Solar System and Beyond
Beginning with a fascinating overview and then organized by planet, this book takes us on a trip across time and space that includes a front-row seat to the explosive birth of the solar system, a journey to (and then...
by Peter Oakley
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Welcome to the Multiverse, an energetic realm where countless universes beyond our own sweep across billion light-year arcs of spacetime, swirling veils washing like waves over and through us, interpenetrating, interacting with our material world, altering past and future in a lively dance of light...
Mapping the Heavens
The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This book provides a tour of the “greatest hits” of cosmological discoveries—the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy...
by Giancarlo Varnier
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012
The name derives from the greek Galaxias, meaning "milky", used to designate the Greek goddess Era. According to the most recent studies, it seems that the Galaxy is, from a morphological point of view, a barred spiral galaxy, or a galaxy composed of a core crossed by a bar-shaped structure, from which depart the spiral arms , following a logarithmic.
One Two Three . . . Infinity
Facts and Speculations of Science
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
". . . full of intellectual treats and tricks, of whimsy and deep scientific philosophy. It is highbrow entertainment at its best, a teasing challenge to all who aspire to think about the universe." — New York Herald Tribune
One of the world's foremost nuclear physicists (celebrated for...
Gravity's Fatal Attraction
Black Holes in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Richly illustrated with the images from observatories on the ground and in space, and computer simulations, this book shows how black holes were discovered, and discusses our current understanding of their role in cosmic evolution. This second edition covers new discoveries made in the past decade,...
The Intelligent Universe
AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2007
What is the ultimate destiny of our universe? That is the striking question addressed by James Gardner in The Intelligent Universe. Traditionally, scientists (and Robert Frost) have offered two bleak answers to this profound issue: fire or ice. In The Intelligent Universe, James Gardner envisions...
The Accidental Universe
The World You Thought You Knew
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
“Alan Lightman brings a light touch to heavy questions. Here is a book about nesting ospreys, multiple universes, atheism, spiritualism, and the arrow of time. Throughout, Lightman takes us back and forth between ordinary occurrences—old shoes and entropy, sailing far out at sea and the infinite...
by Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Sunday Times Bestseller A breathtaking and beautiful exploration of our planet, this groundbreaking book accompanies the BBC One TV series, providing the deepest answers to the simplest questions. Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet. ‘What is motion?’‘Why is every snowflake different?’‘Why...
The Aliens Are Coming!
The Extraordinary Science Behind Our Search for Life in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Actor and bestselling science writer Ben Miller takes readers to the cutting edge of one of the greatest questions of all: Is there life beyond Earth?
For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe, but in the last few years—as our probes begin...
Most Wanted Particle
The Inside Story of the Hunt for the Higgs, the Heart of the Future of Physics
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Now in paperback: the “vivid account of what the process of discovery was really like for an insider.”—Peter Higgs
Particle physics as we know it depends on the Higgs boson: It’s the missing link between the birth of our universe—as a sea of tiny, massless particles—and the tangible...