epub |eng | 2013-04-28 | Author:Stephen C. Meyer

Order vs. Information Self-organizational theorists face, in addition, a conceptual distinction that has cast doubt on the relevance of their theories to biological systems. Self-organizational theorists seek to explain the ...

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 ...

epub |eng | 2006-05-30 | Author:Victoria Christopher Murray [Murray, Victoria Christopher]

In front of Jasmine’s apartment, Hosea said, “I’m not feeling too well.” He tapped his chest. “Feels like heartburn.” “Do you think it was something you ate?” “I don’t know.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

mobi |eng | 2007-01-16 | Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

AT THE RISK of oversimplifying the life cycle of a high-mass star, it is sufficient to recognize that a star is in the business of making and releasing energy, which ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-07-08 | Author:Holt, Jim [Holt, Jim]

HAD IT DEEPENED my insight into the mystery of existence? Well, I was surprised that Weinberg, so bracingly skeptical and scientifically tough-minded, had declared himself open to a metaphysically extravagant ...

mobi |eng | | Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

■ - MODERN - NEOLITHIC Homo sapiens Neanderthaloid Prehominions + — + Australopithecus Socialized Zone J A //J diagram 4. The development of the human Layer. The figures on the ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-05-13 | Author:Stephen Hawking

Tidal Forces Since gravity weakens with distance, the earth pulls on your head with less force than it pulls on your feet, which are a meter or two closer to ...