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The Story of Helium and the Birth of Astrophysics by Biman B. Nath
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Biman B. Nath

Footnotes 1John Keay, The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of how India was Mapped and Everest Was Named (HarperCollins: 2000). 2James F. Tennant, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science April 25,2017 )
The History of the Universe by David H. Lyth
epub |eng | | Author:David H. Lyth

I will take the radius of the smoothing sphere to be proportional to the scale factor a, and will call its present value the smoothing scale . The smoothing scales ...
( Category: Astronomy April 24,2017 )
Asteroid Hunters by Carrie Nugent
epub |eng | | Author:Carrie Nugent

6 My Favorite Telescope Most asteroid hunters use telescopes sensitive to the wavelengths of light that our eyes can see. But there’s one asteroid-hunting telescope that uses a different type ...
( Category: Astronomy April 23,2017 )
Not by Design: The Origin of the Universe
epub |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Victor J. Stenger [Stenger, Victor J.]

Fig. 6.4. In order to “see” an object with particles, the object must have sufficient mass to scatter the incoming particles. Here ping pong balls are easily scattered by a ...
( Category: Cosmology April 15,2017 )
You Are the Universe by Deepak Chopra
epub |eng | 2017-02-06 | Author:Deepak Chopra

History has produced more than its fair share of monsters, and when we think about them, we wonder how they could live with themselves. Not just millions but tens of ...
( Category: Science & Religion April 15,2017 )
Goodbye Paradise
epub |eng | 2017-03-21 | Author:Sarina Bowen

Fourteen Working for Joe Perry was awesome. In spite of his messy desk, he ran a solid operation. I liked the guys there, too. They were relaxed in a way ...
( Category: LGBT March 24,2017 )
Not a Chance: God, Science, and the Revolt against Reason by R. C. Sproul & Keith Mathison
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-12 | Author:R. C. Sproul & Keith Mathison [Sproul, R. C.]

Copernicus is celebrated for challenging the grand assumption of geocentricity. For that challenge he created a scientific revolution. Yet there were more assumptions that needed to be challenged. As Ferris ...
( Category: Science & Religion March 23,2017 )
Now by Richard A. Muller
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Richard A. Muller

The Anthropic Arrow Anthropic means “relating to humans.” The earliest use of the term recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary (1859) refers to the observations of gorillas and their humanlike ...
( Category: Relativity March 22,2017 )
Welcome to the Universe by Tyson Neil deGrasse; Strauss Michael A.; Gott J. Richard & Michael A. Strauss & Neil deGrasse Tyson
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Tyson, Neil deGrasse; Strauss, Michael A.; Gott, J. Richard & Michael A. Strauss & Neil deGrasse Tyson

FIGURE 16.5. Spectrum of the quasar SDSS J1148+5251 at redshift 6.42. This quasar was discovered by Michael Strauss, Xiaohui Fan, and their colleagues in 2001, the highest-redshift quasar known from ...
( Category: Cosmology March 22,2017 )
Planets: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Rothery David A
epub |eng | 2010-11-24 | Author:Rothery, David A. [Rothery, David A.]

Clouds Clouds are highly reflective, so the cloudier an atmosphere, the more solar energy is reflected directly back into space. However, a cloudy sky increases the ability of an atmosphere ...
( Category: Astronomy March 22,2017 )
Sled Driver by Brian Shul
azw3 |eng | 1991-09-15 | Author:Brian Shul

She was an armful in the landing pattern, but pilots rarely rushed to put her on the ground. "... Some mornings I'd see more of the United States in three ...
( Category: Aeronautics & Astronautics March 22,2017 )
Spaceman by Mike Massimino
epub |eng | 2016-10-03 | Author:Mike Massimino

With my copilot, Snoopy, July 1969. Backyard adventures in space. Credit 1 Controlling the robot arm in my lab at MIT, with a 1980s hairstyle. Credit 2 With Mom and ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 21,2017 )
DIY Drones for the Evil Genius: Design, Build, and Customize Your Own Drones: Design, Build, and Customize Your Own Drones by Cinnamon Ian & Kadri Romi & Tepper Fitz
epub |eng | 2016-12-01 | Author:Cinnamon, Ian & Kadri, Romi & Tepper, Fitz [Cinnamon, Ian]

SECTION THREE Picking the Parts Now that you know how to fly, you can start building. Using the skills from the previous two sections, you’ll put your new aerospace engineering ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science March 17,2017 )
Signposts to God: How Modern Physics and Astronomy Point the Way to Belief by Peter Bussey
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-11-06 | Author:Peter Bussey

WOULD A THEORY OF EVERYTHING BE SUFFICIENT? If a theory of everything were able to account for the whole of physics uniquely, its discovery would be the most remarkable intellectual ...
( Category: Astronomy March 17,2017 )
Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-10-25 | Author:Timothy Ferriss

The Value of “I Don’t Understand” “My PhD advisor [at Carnegie Mellon was] a guy named Manuel Blum, who many people consider the father of cryptography [encryption, etc.]. He’s amazing ...
( Category: Motivation & Self-Improvement March 16,2017 )

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