Physics
epub |eng | 2015-09-25 | Author:Randall Munroe

( Category: Technology September 23,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jammer, Max

* * * 1 The term “theology” was used, probably for the first time, by Plato in his Politeia (Republic II, 379a), then by Aristotle (Metaphysics III, 4, 1000 a ...
( Category: Physics September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-30 | Author:John Mayfield

9 Complex Systems What constitutes a complex system? There is no widely accepted mathematical definition of a complex system. Computers, thunderstorms, the human brain, and corporations are all examples. Always ...
( Category: Computer Science September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-22 | Author:Jeff Hawkins

WHAT A REGION OF CORTEX LOOKS LIKE We are now going to turn our attention to an individual region of cortex, one of the boxes in figure 5. Figure 6 ...
( Category: Psychology September 22,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-12-20 | Author:Donella H. Meadows

Some systems are structured to function well despite bounded rationality. The right feedback gets to the right place at the right time. Under ordinary circumstances, your liver gets just the ...
( Category: Economics September 22,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-09-22 | Author:Ronald Florence

20 Swept Away The old A Factory at the Corning Glass Works sat close by the bank of the Chemung River, hemmed in by the tracks of the New York ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-31 | Author:David Deutsch [Deutsch, David]

FIGURE 9.1 The action of a normal mirror is the same in all universes. FIGURE 9.2 A semi-silvered mirror makes initially identical universes differentiate into two equal groups, differing only ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-19 | Author:Trevor Cox

Figure 5.9 Sound in a whispering gallery. Imagine cuing a ball on a circular pool table so that it goes off almost parallel to the side wall. The ball then ...
( Category: Physics September 19,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kip Thorne

9.2 The principle of a radio interferometer. Left: In order to achieve good angular resolution, one would like to have a huge, say, l-kilometer, telescope. However, it would be sufficient ...
( Category: Physics September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Stenger, Victor J. [Stenger, Victor J.]

We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed, few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 18,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:American Prometheus: The Triumph;Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT “He Couldn’t Understand Why He Did It” He told me that his nerve just gave way at that moment. . . . He has this tendency when things ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 18,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:James Kakalios

SECTION 5 MODERN MECHANICS AND INVENTIONS CHAPTER FOURTEEN Quantum Invisible “Ink” Light is an electromagnetic wave that is actually comprised of discrete packets of energy. New York City in 1933 ...
( Category: Physics September 18,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-08-18 | Author:Levitin, Daniel J. [Levitin, Daniel J.]

Across all these examples, a common thread emerges: Knowledge songs tell stories, recount an ordeal, a saga, a particularly noteworthy hunt—something to immortalize. The demonstrated power of song-as-memory-aid has been ...
( Category: Physics September 18,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Phillip F. Schewe

OUT OF THE BLACK Much of Jason’s work was narrowly focused on military projects, things like tactical nuclear weapons and antipersonnel devices. But other problems were interesting also for their ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 17,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-07-31 | Author:

8.6.1 The adjacent possible Consider a flask of one thousand kinds of small organic molecules. Call these the actual. Now let these react by a single reaction step. Perhaps new ...
( Category: Physics September 16,2017 )