Astronomy & Space Science
mobi |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Max Tegmark [Tegmark, Max]

The traditional formulation of the law simply corresponds to ignoring the subject. When I published a technical article about this (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1108.3080.pdf),2 I included a mathematical proof of the second part ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Walter Gonzalez & Eugene Parker

Keywords Current sheetMagnetospheric reconnectionMagnetotailPlasma sheetReconnection onsetSubstorms 7.1 Introduction In the Solar system, the Earth’s magnetosphere is a unique example of a fair balance between external driving and inherent dynamics. Mercury, ...
( Category: Physics April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anthony Aveni

First U.S. eclipse map, showing the path of the February 1831 eclipse. (The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1831 [Boston: Gray & Bowen], p. 13, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William Sheehan [Sheehan, William]

We now know from Earth-based charge-coupled device (CCD) images (see chapter 15) and spacecraft photographs that Antoniadi was more or less right and Lowell was wrong. There are no genuine ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Sallis, John;

(E) PARERGA The first word of the Theaetetus is echoed throughout. Yet there is something paradoxical about these echoes, a certain opposition between what they echo and their very occurrence. ...
( Category: Philosophy April 11,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Linda Dawson

Final Thoughts on the Dangers of Outer Space In the early manned space programs of the United States and the USSR, very little was known about the detrimental effects of ...
( Category: Engineering April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-10 | Author:John Bisney,J. L. Pickering

Suit tech Joe Schmitt reaches into a pocket on White’s pressure suit on launch morning in the suiting trailer at LC-16. Astronaut Office chief Alan Shepard (center) had been named ...
( Category: Photography & Video April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2008-04-10 | Author:Bloch, William Goldbloom;

FIVE Geometry and Graph Theory Ambiguity and Access If one does not expect the unexpected one will not find it out. —Heraclitus, Fragment 18 A library is a collection of ...
( Category: Mathematics April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:David J. Shayler & Colin Burgess

Exchange of crews and missions At the time of the crew amendments to the second and third missions, nothing was said of the discussions and evaluations being carried out behind ...
( Category: Engineering April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-28 | Author:Stephen P. Maran

( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 10,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew B. Godefroy

The level of responsibility afforded the Canadian exchange officers throughout their tours was considerable, and their success in their respective assignments was further demonstrative of the quality of RCAF officers ...
( Category: Engineering April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Christopher Potter

Project Gemini had 27 astronauts to draw from: the Mercury Seven and two later intakes. Late in 1962 NASA had introduced a further nine astronauts to the world. Unimaginatively, they ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-20 | Author:Harry Collins

Notes 1. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03fm6b8. Thanks to Graham Woan for pointing this out to me. 2. Davide Castelvecchi, “Gravitational-wave Rumours in Overdrive,” Nature, January 12, 2016. 3. Quoted in Shannon Hall, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Thompson

July: Northern Hemisphere Sky Looking at the sky we can see why our ancestors believed the night sky was perfect and constant, but it is not until you examine it ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 9,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-23 | Author:Crofton, Ian & Black, Jeremy [Crofton, Ian]

CLASHES OF CIVILIZATIONS The emergence of two aspiring world religions – Christianity and Islam – within a few hundred years of each other led to centuries of conflict, which many ...
( Category: History & Philosophy April 9,2018 )