Astronomy & Space Science
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Stephen Hawking [Hawking, Stephen]

INTEREST IN gravitational collapse was reawakened in the early 1960s with the discovery of quasars, very distant objects that are very compact and powerful optical and radio sources. Matter falling ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:James R. Hansen [Hansen, James R.]

On the one hand to dwell in the very center of technological reality…yet to inhabit—if only in one’s dreams—that other world where death, metaphysics and the unanswerable questions of eternity ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:Al Worden [Worden, Al]

CHAPTER 8 LAUNCH You never forget launch day. Finally, your mission is about to begin. You are in a special zone, like an athlete walking out for an Olympic event. ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-27 | Author:Neil Degrasse Tyson & Avis Lang [Tyson, Neil Degrasse & Lang, Avis]

• • • CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT SPACE TRAVEL TROUBLES* Listening to space enthusiasts talk about space travel or watching blockbuster science-fiction movies might make you think that sending people to the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Garrett P. Serviss

* * * X THE TOP OF THE GRAND TETON The climbing soon became difficult, until at length we were going up hand over hand, taking advantage of crevices and ...
( Category: Adventure March 26,2014 )
mobi |eng | | Author:K Matthew

To further support this author, please post a review after you finish reading this book. To find out when K. Matthew has new books available and to be informed of ...
( Category: Lesson Planning March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-27 | Author:Edward M. Lerner

“So how do you handle competing interests from back home?” the human, Aldrich, asked Pashwah. Human literature envisioned sandboxes as solitary places. Humans were, as so often, quite mistaken. “No ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1998-10-15 | Author:Arthur C. Clarke

20 Apostate RECORD POOLE Hello, Frank... So you've finally met Ted. Yes, you could call him a crank - if you define that as an enthusiast with no sense of ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction March 25,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Matthew Hughes

Chapter Eight Bol adjusted the apparatus and the sphere shrank and dimmed further, but did not disappear. He stroked his chins in what I now understood to be a characteristic ...
( Category: Dark Fantasy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Lisa Randall

“Super” words abound in physics terminology. We have superconducting, supercooling, supersaturated, superfluid, the Super conducting Supercollider (the SSC)—which would have been the highest-energy collider today had Congress not canceled it ...
( Category: Particle Physics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Brian Greene

Figure 9.1 A doughnut, or torus, and its multihandled cousins. You might think that the number of holes in the curled-up Planck-sized dimensions—mountaintop physics par excellence—has now kicked an experimentally ...
( Category: Particle Physics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2000-10-15 | Author:John D. Barrow

LAMBDA – A NEW COSMIC FORCE “If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible ...
( Category: Number Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Lawrence M. Krauss

CHAPTER 7 OUR MISERABLE FUTURE The future ain’t what it used to be. —YOGI BERRA In one sense it is both remarkable and exciting to find ourselves in a universe ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-24 | Author:Greene, Brian [Greene, Brian]

Mysteries and Multiverses: Can a multiverse provide explanatory power of which we’d otherwise be deprived? No doubt you’ve noticed that even the most sanguine projections suggest that predictions emerging from ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-11-01 | Author:Sean Carroll

COLLAPSE OF THE WAVE FUNCTION The thing about this discussion that tends to rub people the wrong way—and with good reason—is the crucial role played by observation. When we observed ...
( Category: Cosmology March 25,2014 )