Offering a sweeping tour of fantastic physics and cosmic history, Gravity's Engines provides a view of the most fearsome places in the universe, and finally asks what it will take to see the event horizon of a black hole
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Astrobiology: a very short introduction
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Astrobiologists study the origin and evolution of life on Earth and the possibility of life beyond Earth; a question that has fascinated scientists for hundreds of years. In this book David C. Catling introduces the latest scientific understanding of astrobiology, incorporating …
Turns the common perception of archaeology as an exploration of the ancient on its head, and takes the reader on a journey which captures the relics of space forays and uncovers the cultural value of detritus all too readily dismissed as junk
In this work, James Owen Weatherall takes on a fundamental concept of modern physics: nothing. The physics of stuff, - protons, neutrons, electrons, and even quarks and gluons, is at least somewhat familiar to most of us. But what about the physics of nothing? Isaac Newton thoug…
There's no better guide through mind-expanding questions such as what the nature of space and time is, how we fit within the universe, and how the universe fits within us than Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the univ…
Biocentrism shocked the world with a radical rethinking of the nature of reality. But that was just the beginning. In "Beyond Biocentrism", acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza and leading astronomer Bob Berman, take the reader on an intellectual thrill-ride as they re-examine every…
The media reports on the latest scientific discoveries and breakthroughs can seem like a foreign language, from black holes, to dark matter and exoplanets to leap seconds. Finally get to grips with these difficult concepts by reading Ben Gilliland's unique take on them
Aimed at advanced undergraduates with background knowledge of classical mechanics and electricity and magnetism, this textbook presents both the particle dynamics relevant to general relativity, and the field dynamics necessary to understand the theory. Focusing on action extrem…
