Cosmology
mobi | | 1990-12-13 | Author:Stephen W. Hawking

CHAPTER 7 BLACK HOLES AIN’T SO BLACK Before 1970, my research on general relativity had concentrated mainly on the question of whether or not there had been a big bang ...
( Category: Cosmology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:David Abram

Despite a few thunderstorms last month, this land is dry—too dry. All around my home the piñon pines are desiccating and dying from the deepening drought. Most of the fish ...
( Category: Cosmology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-05 | Author:Lisa Randall

CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE CMS AND ATLAS EXPERIMENTS In August 2007, the Spanish physicist and CERN theory group leader Luis Álvarez-Gaumé enthusiastically encouraged me to join a tour of the ATLAS ...
( Category: Cosmology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Martin Bojowald

INFLATION: SPECULATING ON THE EARLY UNIVERSE Negative pressure can suspend the purely attractive nature of gravity in general relativity, so could it perhaps be important to prevent singularities? For this ...
( Category: Time March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-08-01 | Author:Stephen Hawking

The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe Chapter 5 - FIFTH LECTURE - THE ORIGIN AND FATE OF THE... T H E O R I G ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:David Deutsch

11 The Multiverse The idea of a ‘doppelgänger’ (a ‘double’ of a person) is a frequent theme of science fiction. For instance, the classic television series Star Trek featured several ...
( Category: Cosmology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-19 | Author:Victor J. Stenger

10.5. STRENGTH OF THE STRONG INTERACTION One of Martin Rees's “six numbers” that determine the structure of the universe he calls nuclear efficiency.14 It is defined specifically as ε = ...
( Category: Cosmology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Stephen Hawking; Leonard Mlodinow

The first force for which a quantum version was created was electromagnetism. The quantum theory of the electromagnetic field, called quantum electrodynamics, or QED for short, was developed in the ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-08-15 | Author:Philip K. Dick

This is one of the keys to the story of Parsifal, the pure fool who abolishes the delusion of the magician Klingsor and his castle, and heals Amfortas’s wound. But ...
( Category: Cyberpunk March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2003-10-01 | Author:Michael Shermer

Campbell’s theory, as described in his 1972 Myths to Live By, is that myths serve four functions: (1) mystical, which “serves to awaken and maintain the individual sense of awe ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-06-25 | Author:Carl Sagan

PLANETARY SCIENCE fosters a broad interdisciplinary point of view that proves enormously helpful in discovering and attempting to defuse these looming environmental catastrophes. When you cut your teeth on other ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:John F. Ashton

I was raised in a Christian home, believing in God and His creation. However, I was taught evolution while attending high school, and began to doubt the authority of the ...
( Category: Faith March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-29 | Author:Brian Greene

The Elegant Universe Chapter 9 The Smoking Gun: Experimental Signatures N othing would please string theorists more than to proudly present the world with a list of detailed, experimentally testable ...
( Category: Particle Physics March 25,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-08-26 | Author:Thomas Nagel [Nagel, Thomas]

2 The first problem arises only if one presupposes realism about the subject matter of our thought. We want to know how likely it is, for example, that evolution should ...
( Category: Cosmology March 25,2014 )
epub | | 1998-07-15 | Author:Stephen W. Hawking [Hawking, Stephen W.]

A Brief History of Time CHAPTER 7 BLACK HOLES AIN’T SO BLACK Before 1970, my research on general relativity had concentrated mainly on the question of whether or not there ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 25,2014 )