Physics
epub | | | Author:Ted Nield

( Category: Plate Tectonics January 6,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Asimov, Isaac [Asimov, Isaac]

55. ARE THERE PLANETS THE ANCIENTS DIDN’T KNOW? The asteroids, which I have already described, may be tiny, but they are planets circling the sun, and no one knew of ...
( Category: Astronomy January 1,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-12-28 | Author:Graham Farmelo [Graham Farmelo]

It really will change me very much when I go home; it will make me afraid to do anything for my own pleasure. I shall probably be afraid to think ...
( Category: Scientists December 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-25 | Author:Richard P. Feynman [Feynman, Richard P.]

6 THE VALUE OF SCIENCE Of all its many values, the greatest must be the freedom to doubt. In Hawaii, Feynman learns a lesson in humility while touring a Buddhist ...
( Category: Scientists December 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin [Bird, Kai & Sherwin, Martin J.]

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: Scientists December 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-17 | Author:Steven H Strogatz

The conclusion, then, is that the state space for this simplest of Josephson arrays is equivalent to the surface of a torus. Every point on the torus corresponds to an ...
( Category: Biological Sciences December 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 1994-01-27 | Author:Kaku, Michio & O'Keefe, Robert [O'Keefe, Robert]

Signals from Outer Space Since the SSC will never be built, and hence will never detect particles that are low-energy resonances of the superstring, then another possibility is to measure ...
( Category: Waves & Wave Mechanics December 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-05 | Author:David Orrell [DAVID ORRELL]

PREDICTING THE PREDICTORS The equilibrium theory saw the homme moyen as a stable, tranquil, emotionally dead person, a mere cog in the machine who would be utterly predictable if it ...
( Category: Thermodynamics December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-20 | Author:Hendy, David

… an old negro near me … trembled, his teeth chattered, and his face, at intervals, was convulsed. He soon began to respond aloud to the sentiments of the preacher ...
( Category: Cultural December 22,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-06-21 | Author:Hendy, David [Hendy, David]

… an old negro near me … trembled, his teeth chattered, and his face, at intervals, was convulsed. He soon began to respond aloud to the sentiments of the preacher ...
( Category: Cultural December 22,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-16 | Author:Michael D. Fayer

12 The Hydrogen Molecule and the Covalent Bond ONE OF THE GREAT TRIUMPHS of quantum mechanics is the theoretical explanation of the covalent bond. Two types of interactions hold atoms ...
( Category: Quantum Theory December 19,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-08-01 | Author:Paul Halpern

No aspect of the accelerator center was too trivial for Wilson to tweak—from the distinctive geometric rooftops (a geodesic dome in one case) to the no-frills dirt floors—even the specifics ...
( Category: Particle Physics December 19,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Strogatz, Steven H. [Strogatz, Steven H.]

What’s so surprising here is that the waterwheel turns erratically, even though there’s nothing erratic about the way it is being driven. The water is pumped in at a steady ...
( Category: Molecular Biology December 3,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-03-01 | Author:Lloyd, Seth [Lloyd, Seth]

Entanglement Another difference between the classical and quantum versions of the controlled-NOT is that in the quantum case, information is created, apparently from nothing. Recall the analogous classical process: the ...
( Category: Quantum Theory November 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-04-14 | Author:Sean M. Carroll [Carroll, Sean M.]

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 ...
( Category: Cosmology November 26,2014 )