Physics
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:Isaac Asimov

HABITABILITY The mere fact that a planet is in the ecosphere does not mean that it is a suitable abode for life; that it is habitable, in other words. For ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-12-01 | Author:Vladimir Rubtsov & Edward Ashpole

duration of the effect. The TSB had exploded in the lower atmo- sphere, at a height less than 10 km, where high-temperature plasma can exist only several minutes before it ...
( Category: Astronomy March 25,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:Annette Capps

Faith Language and Quantum Theory The way things work in quantum theory is so weird and bizarre that we really don't have the language to describe it. This is one ...
( Category: Inspirational March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-30 | Author:Charles Seife

The lure of cold fusion and the promise of unlimited, free energy is, itself, a source of power to be reckoned with. Patent examiner Thomas Valone has been under its ...
( Category: Nuclear Physics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-03-10 | Author:Kaku, Michio [Kaku, Michio]

One day in the distant future we will have our last nice day on Earth. Eventually, billions of years from now, the sky will be on fire. The sun will ...
( Category: Popular Culture March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-26 | Author:Michael Cabbage & William Harwood

Gehman spent the afternoon at his home, reading contingency plan documents being faxed to him by Gregory’s office. The first thing he decided to do was change the name of ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Astronomy March 25,2014 )
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 | 2011-11-05 | 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 | 2010-01-02 | Author:Michael D. Fayer

FIGURE 12.1. A plot of the energy of two hydrogen atoms as they are brought close together. When the H atoms are very far apart, the energy of the system ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-08-12 | Author:Shing-tung Yau; Steve Nadi

Homological mirror symmetry was first unveiled by Kontsevich in 1993 and has been developing ever since, sparking considerable activity in both physics and math. Mirror symmetry, as originally formulated, didn’t ...
( Category: Geometry & Topology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-11-15 | Author:Ted Nield

Non posse The reason for du Toit’s failure lay in the nature of the evidence itself, of the ‘proofs’, as Skerl would have translated it. Both du Toit and Wegener ...
( Category: Plate Tectonics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Ray Jayawardhana

All of that changed in 1995, not only for Basri but for the entire feld, as a result of multiple discoveries made almost simultaneously. John Stauffer, then at the Harvard-Smithsonian ...
( Category: Biology March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-09-19 | Author:Professor Brian Cox; Andrew Cohen

The giant Orion Molecular Cloud is an extensive area of star formation about 1,500 light years from us, centred on the impressive Orion Nebula. This infrared image of it, from ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 25,2014 )