Cosmology
mobi |eng | 2011-04-18 | Author:Nancy Ellen Abrams & Joel R Primack [Abrams, Nancy Ellen]

Chapter 8 Cosmic Society Now Building a cosmic society is not a dream for the distant future, like galactic travel. It’s about today. In fact, the future world is far ...
( Category: Science & Religion July 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-02 | Author:Dr. Becky Smethurst [Smethurst, Becky]

The universe sprang into being, in a wondrous storm of creation, 14 billion years ago; 9.5 billion years later, the Sun, the Earth, and the solar system started to take ...
( Category: Astronomy June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Edward van den Heuvel

The discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation has transformed cosmology from a speculative theoretical science into a quantitative observational science, based on solid observational facts. Prior to this, physicists ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-03 | Author:Roger Penrose [Penrose, Roger]

Fig. 3.4 There will be the occasional ‘rogue’ electron or positron, ultimately trapped within its horizon and unable to lose its electric charge through pair annihilation. A more radical resolution ...
( Category: Cosmology June 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-14 | Author:Chambers, John; Mitton, Jacqueline;

EARTH To understand how Earth became the planet we see today, it helps to understand its structure. Geologists are at a distinct disadvantage compared to astronomers in that they can’t ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Reinhard Hentschke & Christian Hölbling

(7.8) The universe it describes is homogenous and bounded. Fig. 7.3A possible time history of the circular universe A generalisation to three-dimensional space and four-dimensional spacetime is (7.9) Note that ...
( Category: Astronomy June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:Nealon, Jeffrey T. [Nealon, Jeffrey T.]

4 FROM THE WORLD TO THE TERRITORY Vegetable Life in Deleuze and Guattari; or, What Is a Rhizome? ASKING “WHAT IS A RHIZOME?” in Deleuze and Guattari may seem like ...
( Category: Cosmology June 28,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2020-06-01 | Author:Smethurst, Becky [Smethurst, Becky]

Back in 1995, radial velocity measurements were used to detect 51 Pegasi b, a roughly Jupiter-size planet orbiting around a Sun-like star every four days. It’s unsurprising that this was ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science June 21,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2020-06-05 | Author:Brian Cox

Figure 6.5 The origin of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation. Dicke and his colleagues made these observations having just heard the news that, away at the Bell Laboratories in ...
( Category: Astronomy June 10,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-04-08 | Author:Professor Brian Cox [Cox, Professor Brian]

* * * EVOLUTION OF HOMINIDS These hominid evolutionary trees trace our genetic history as humans to the Old World monkeys that roamed Earth 25 million years ago. Discoveries of ...
( Category: Astronomy June 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-13 | Author:Page, Lyman;

Plate 7 shows maps of the CMB anisotropy from both WMAP and Planck. Whereas the left side of figure 3.1 is made looking down on Earth from space, the images ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science May 25,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Kenneth R. Valpey

… And the Ploughman settled the share More deep in the sun-dried clod: “Mogul Mahratta, and Mlech from the North, And White Queen over the Seas— God raiseth them up ...
( Category: Social Philosophy May 18,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Charles Keeton

The effective potential is useful because we can think of it as a surface and use our intuition to understand what would happen to a ball on that surface. Some ...
( Category: Astronomy April 24,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Delia Perlov & Alex Vilenkin

(13.1) A neutron is more massive than a proton and electron combined, so it costs extra energy to convert a proton into a neutron. As the universe expands and cools, ...
( Category: Cosmology April 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Gribbin

More Answers than Questions The difficulty is not finding a candidate for the dark stuff in the haloes of galaxies but choosing among the many good candidates we have. The ...
( Category: Cosmology April 21,2020 )