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The Flat Earth Trilogy Book of Secrets I by Gregory Garrett
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-12-20 | Author:Gregory Garrett [Garrett, Gregory]

Atmospheric Refraction or “Lensing” and Diffusion “Atmospheric refraction is the deviation of light or other electromagnetic wave from a straight line as it passes through the atmosphere due to the ...
( Category: Astronomy February 24,2020 )
Astroparticle Physics by Claus Grupen
epub |eng | | Author:Claus Grupen

(9.5.1) where GeV has been used. One can convert this to normal units by dividing by , (9.5.2) This density corresponds to about proton masses in the volume of a ...
( Category: Particle Physics February 21,2020 )
The Case for Space by Robert Zubrin;
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Zubrin;

SATURN EXPRESS It seems to me that the Breakthrough Initiative needs a near-term mission that can act as a transition to its visionary goal of interstellar travel. I have a ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight February 19,2020 )
The Science of Harry Potter by Mark Brake
epub |eng | 2017-02-17 | Author:Mark Brake

DEVIL’S SNARE: WHAT ARE THE REAL-LIFE FLESH-EATING PLANTS? Herbology is one of the many fascinating topics that students study at Hogwarts. Herbology is all about magical plants and fungi, and ...
( Category: Antiques & Collectibles February 18,2020 )
The Five Ages of the Universe by Fred C. Adams & Greg Laughlin
epub |eng | | Author:Fred C. Adams & Greg Laughlin

BASIC BLACK HOLE WEIRDNESS Black holes make a mockery of our common sense ideas concerning space and time. During the Black Hole Era, the universe becomes a very alien place. ...
( Category: Astronomy February 15,2020 )
Eating the Sun by Ella Frances Sanders
epub |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Ella Frances Sanders

THEORIES ARE NOT GUESSES There is a fair amount of misunderstanding when it comes to the terms scientists use to explain and organize things. The words they employ are often ...
( Category: Astronomy February 15,2020 )
The Science of Rick and Morty by Matt Brady
epub |eng | 2019-02-11 | Author:Matt Brady

CHANGE ‘EM Memories are, at their most basic, an alteration in the structure of the brain. Altering them isn’t a big deal. As mentioned earlier, to form a new memory, ...
( Category: Shows February 12,2020 )
Introduction to Modeling Convection in Planets and Stars by Glatzmaier Gary A
epub |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:Glatzmaier, Gary A.

so that everywhere. Note how this is similar to how we defined the mass flux in Eq. 10.43 for a Boussinesq fluid in a cartesian box with = 1. Note ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science February 5,2020 )
Exoplanet Atmospheres by Sara Seager
epub |eng | 2010-02-02 | Author:Sara Seager [Seager, Sara]

From our previous discussion of the thermal compoment of the source function in LTE (Section 5.4) we have where B is black body radiation, which depends only on temperature (through ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science February 3,2020 )
The Intimate Universe by Marek Kukula
epub |eng | 2015-08-25 | Author:Marek Kukula

As their name suggests, Hot Jupiters are gas giant planets, like Jupiter and Saturn in our own Solar System. But whereas these familiar worlds orbit far from the Sun, Hot ...
( Category: Astronomy January 25,2020 )
From Cave Man to Cave Martian by Manfred “Dutch” von Ehrenfried
epub |eng | | Author:Manfred “Dutch” von Ehrenfried

The landing sites for future human missions to the Moon might be different to those for robotic missions. There is one site that seems to be high on the list ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science January 24,2020 )
Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: The Story of a Gamble, Two Black Holes, and a New Age of Astronomy by Marcia Bartusiak
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Marcia Bartusiak [Bartusiak, Marcia]

Richard Isaacson, the NSF’s former program director of gravitational physics, in 1995. Photograph by Tatiana Divens, courtesy AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives, Divens Collection. With this decision, gravity-wave astronomy moved ...
( Category: Astronomy January 19,2020 )
Our Cosmic Habitat by Martin Rees
epub |eng | 2001-01-15 | Author:Martin Rees [Rees, Martin]

PART II The Beginning and the End CHAPTER 7 Deceleration or Acceleration? Limits to Prediction In August 1999, a total solar eclipse was visible from southwest England. I viewed it ...
( Category: Astronomy January 19,2020 )
Laws of Thermodynamics by Atkins Peter;
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Atkins, Peter; [Atkins, Peter;]

For mathematically cogent reasons that need not detain us here, Clausius defined a change in entropy of a system as the result of dividing the energy transferred as heat by ...
( Category: Thermodynamics January 19,2020 )
Exoplanets by Donald Goldsmith
azw3 |eng | 2018-09-10 | Author:Donald Goldsmith

The exoplanet expert David Kipping has pointed to an interesting aspect of the newly established super-Earth category: our planet’s rank among the largest of these objects. As Kipping puts it: ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science January 19,2020 )

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