Astrophysics & Space Science
epub |eng | 2014-05-28 | Author:Freese, Katherine

Direct Detection: Abandoned Mines, Alpine Tunnels, and Nightclubs in Jerusalem Complementary to the creation of dark matter in accelerators is the detection of astrophysical dark matter particles. These particles traverse ...
( Category: Cosmology May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:Paul Davies

The most obvious explanation for the absence of aliens on Earth is that aliens don’t exist – that is, we are alone in the universe. That was presumably Fermi’s own ...
( Category: Astronomy March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Yeomans, Donald K.

FIGURE 6.3. The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa extensively studied near-Earth asteroid (25143) Itokawa in the fall of 2005. Near-Earth asteroid Itokawa was named for the father of Japanese rocketry, Hideo Itokawa, ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Simon Singh [Simon Singh ]

From the Cosmic to the Atomic In order for the Big Bang model to be accepted, there was one seemingly innocuous question that could not be ignored: why are some ...
( Category: Relativity March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Chris Gainor [Gainor, Chris]

Breaking the Sound Barrier Humans, not just animals, were also being subjected to new speeds and acceleration forces in the first decade after the war, sometimes with similarly fatal results. ...
( Category: Aircraft Design & Construction March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Kimberly K. Arcand [Arcand, Kimberly K.]

( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-26 | Author:John Gribbin

7 Where Did the Chemical Elements Come from? Although Alfred Russel Wallace, writing more than a hundred years ago, had no idea of the true extent and complexity of the ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Caleb A. Scharf [Scharf, Caleb A.]

Figure 14. An X-ray image of the hot gas in the inner regions of the Perseus galaxy cluster, showing the dark bubbles that have been blown by the black hole ...
( Category: Astronomy March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-22 | Author:John Gribbin

MAKING PLANETS Armed with this understanding of the geography of the Solar System, we can begin to understand how the planets formed, and why the Solar System is special. Working ...
( Category: Cosmology March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-19 | Author:Paul Davies

The imploder Although by human standards a quark-gluon plasma is highly energized, it is a long way from our present requirements. The enormous temperature of 10 trillion degrees inside the ...
( Category: Relativity March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-29 | Author:Les Johnson [Johnson, Les]

Daedalus evolved as a kid brother to Orion. Instead of using the dramatic thermonuclear-pulse drive, it used a somewhat tamer approach—inertial fusion. Small micropellets of fusion fuel were to be ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2010-01-21 | Author:Robert A Heinlein [Heinlein, Robert A.]

IX I am now twenty-seven years old. Venus years, of course, but it sounds so much better. All is relative. Not that I would stay here on Venus even if ...
( Category: Science Fiction March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Stephen Hawking [Hawking, Stephen]

*A lecture given at the Three Hundred Years of Gravity conference held in Cambridge in June 1987, on the three hundredth anniversary of the publication of Newton’s Principia. Ten THE ...
( Category: Cosmology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-11-03 | Author:Lawrence M. Krauss [Krauss, Lawrence M.]

CHAPTER TEN MAD, BAD, AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW Thinking is very far from knowing. —Proverb Stare deeply into the eyes of someone you love, and you are sure to feel ...
( Category: Shows March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-04-11 | Author:Gene Kranz [Kranz, Gene]

I recognized a few of the Thompson committee members. Frank Borman, the Gemini astronaut, and Max Faget, the director of engineering, were from MSC, and John Williams was from the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )