Astronomy & Space Science
epub |eng | | Author:Sujan Sengupta

Difficult to Detect Extra-Solar Planets Directly Since the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, a large number of planets and planetary systems outside the solar system have been discovered within a ...
( Category: Geology April 7,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Brian Clegg

IF WE DIDN’T TAKE THIS APPROACH WE WOULD HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO OPERATE EVERY SINGLE LIGHT SWITCH WE EVER CAME ACROSS SEPARATELY. For our purposes we need to pick ...
( Category: Logic April 5,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:McCray, W. Patrick

CHAPTER 6 California Dreaming As I’ve said many times, the future is here. It’s just not very evenly distributed. —William Gibson, science fiction author, interview on National Public Radio, November ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Owen Gingerich

Herein was fulfilled one of the most touching of prophecies. Years before, the opponents of Copernicus had said to him, "If your doctrines were true, Venus would show phases like ...
( Category: Cosmology March 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-21 | Author:John McPhee

THE FRONT PAGE of the New York Herald of September 8, 1863, was entirely given over to classified ads and a large map of Chattanooga depicting the military situation there. ...
( Category: Aeronautics & Astronautics March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:John Hands [HANDS, JOHN]

Collaboration Another consequence of adopting the NeoDarwinian model, noted in Chapter 16, was ignoring collaboration as a cause of evolution. However, the examination of behaviour in Chapter 19 led to ...
( Category: Cosmology March 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-12 | Author:Thierry Legault

1. Make sure the details that appear are real and are not artifacts 2. Warn the viewers of the image that some features may not be real and that it ...
( Category: Reference March 13,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Rees [Rees, Martin]

THE TUNING OF THE INITIAL EXPANSION Ω may not be exactly one, but it is now at least 0.3. At first sight, this may not seem to indicate fine tuning. ...
( Category: Astronomy March 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-10 | Author:Peter Galison

Figure 4.4 Hunting the Ether. With a remarkable series of experiments, Albert Michelson sought to measure the earth’s motion through the elusive ether. In the 1881 device shown here, he ...
( Category: Relativity March 11,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-02-29 | Author:Guillermo Gonzalez & Jay Wesley Richards

THE FAILURE OF THE COPERNICAN PRINCIPLE The preceding list of Copernican Principle predictions, by no means exhaustive, has two implications: When we can test the Copernican Principle against the evidence, ...
( Category: Science & Religion March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-28 | Author:Adam Steltzner & William Patrick [Steltzner, Adam & Patrick, William]

Chapter 8 THE LEAST UNACCEPTABLE SOLUTION As I was wrapping up my initial work on MER, my stock was pretty high at JPL. I was asked to consult for the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 6,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2002-10-03 | Author:Stephen Webb [Webb, Stephen]

FIGURE 44: The planetary nebula NGC 7027. Objects like this produce much of the carbon we observe in the Universe. The main producers of cosmic carbon are planetary nebulae, which ...
( Category: Astronomy March 6,2016 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-02 | Author:Terry Pratchett

TWENTY-FOUR DESPITE WHICH … THAT BLUE IN THE ROUNDWORLD SEA isn’t a chemical – well, not in the usual ‘simple chemical’ sense of the word. It’s a mass of bacteria, ...
( Category: Astronomy February 29,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-02-12 | Author:Robert M. Schoch [Schoch, Robert M.]

What distinguishes a vitrified fort? The stone walls and structures have been subject to intense heat, to the point where some of the rocks have melted and fused, forming masses ...
( Category: Astronomy February 14,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-12-31 | Author:Jay Gallentine [Gallentine, Jay]

14 Devil from Redondo A horrendous undertaking. —Loyal Goff of NASA’s Viking Program Office, on the Viking Biology Instrument Unfettered and indiscriminate in attitude and behavior, the Looney Tunes Tasmanian ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight February 13,2016 )