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262) COSM
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
An accidental explosion in a laboratory creates a wormhole, a space-time tunnel, which black physicist Alicia Butterworth uses to visit another universe. Time is so fast in this other world, Alicia can observe cosmic evolution as it happens. By the author of Sailing Bright Eternity.
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
From the formation of the Universe to today, countless major events have changed the course of life on Earth. Aligned with the online Big History Project supported by Bill Gates, Big History puts a wide-angle lens on 13.8 billion years of remarkable history and shows you how and why we got where we are today. With stunning visual timelines and special CGI reconstructions, you can see history's greatest events. Look back to our origins in the stars,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Esteemed planetary geologist Erik Asphaug takes us on an exhilarating tour through the farthest reaches of time and our galaxy to find out why. Beautifully written and provocatively argued, this book is not only a mind-blowing astronomical tour but a profound inquiry into the nature of life here -- and billions of miles from home.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"If you go out and simply look up, everything - from the Moon to the planets to the stars to the band of the Milky Way - appears to be pasted on the two-dimensional surface of the dome of the sky. Yet, the story of astronomy as a science is how, over time, astronomers have discovered the cosmos in depth. It is the story of the measurement of position and distance, and how our 2D view of the sky above us evolved into a more sophisticated comprehension...
268) Hyperspace
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Experience the beautiful, astonishing and ofter dangerous phenomena of the universe as state-of-the art computer graphics take you from the vast clouds where stars are born to the edge of a planet-guzzling black hole. Learn how every molecule of our bodies originated in the Big Bang. Will scientists transform a planet like Mars into a new Earth? See revolutionary forms of transportation that could let us hop between galaxies.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Explore the solar system and beyond-- vast galaxies, supernovas, and black holes. Discover new space technology, how astronauts train, and incredible findings by astronomers. Thousands of fascinating facts provide a clear insight into the mysteries of the universe. Information on every planet in the solar system; detailed illustrations and photographs; special section on all 88 constellations.
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
Frank J. Tipler is a major theoretician in the field of global general relativity, the rarefied branch of physics created by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose. Like most modern scientists, Tipler was an atheist who gave little thought to questions of theology. Yet, in devising a mathematical model of the end of the universe, Tipler came to a stunning conclusion: Using the most advanced and sophisticated methods of modern physics, relying solely on...
273) Wormholes explained
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"A wormhole is a tubelike distortion of time and space connecting distant places in the universe. Wormholes have been featured in many movies, but can they really exist? Wormholes are a prediction of scientific theories, and the precision of mathematics allows them to be described, even before they have ever been seen. Untangling complex physics theories with accessible language and captivating imagery, this text explores the development and evaluation...
276) It can't be true!
Series
It can't be true volume 1
Pub. Date
c2013.
Description
A vibrantly illustrated treasury of amazing facts about subjects ranging from animals and the human body to architecture and outer space combines CGI images with such entries that examine the moon's comparative size to Australia and the massive dimensions of a whale's heart.
280) The zoomable universe: an epic tour through cosmic scale, from almost everything to nearly nothing
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
In The Zoomable Universe, the award-winning astrobiologist Caleb Scharf and the acclaimed artist Ron Miller take us on an epic tour through all known scales of reality, from the largest possible magnitude to the smallest. Drawing on cutting-edge science, they begin at the limits of the observable universe, a scale spanning 10̂27 meters--about 93 billion light-years. And they end in the subatomic realm, at 10̂-35 meters, where the fabric of space-time...
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