History & Philosophy
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | 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 January 31,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Clegg

12. BEAM ME UP If your first experience of teleportation was Star Trek and the all-too-frequent requests to Mr. Scott to be beamed up (wonderfully parodied in Galaxy Quest), then ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy January 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 1980-01-21 | Author:Bohm, David

where ∈ is a very small randomly fluctuating quantity (which gets larger and larger as we go to higher and higher frequencies). To test for such a fluctuation, one could ...
( Category: Quantum Theory January 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:Thagard, Paul [Thagard, Paul]

If logic means just “formal deductive logic,” then there is no logic of discovery. But N. R. Hanson (1958, 1965) argued for a broader conception of logic, which could be ...
( Category: Neurology January 11,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:Eric R. Scerri [Scerri, Eric R.]

In 1871, he predicted their atomic weights to be and he gave a detailed set of predictions on various chemical and physical properties of all three elements. It took 15 ...
( Category: Chemistry January 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-22 | Author:Petrick, Elizabeth R.

Technology-Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1988 As the disability rights movement surged forward, newly energized by a population of college-aged adults with disabilities who had grown up ...
( Category: Disabled January 6,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:George Pendle [Pendle, George]

Amidst the chorus of celebration sounded a few dissonant notes. Ever since the military had stepped in as the Suicide Squad’s main benefactor, levels of security had soared and a ...
( Category: Occultism January 6,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Fred Heeren [Heeren, Fred]

Purposeful Selection No. 8: Slight Excess of Matter over Antimatter Antimatter sounds like something that was invented especially by the writers of Star Trek, a handy sci-fi plot device that ...
( Category: Cosmology December 30,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Kara Platoni

SEVEN Pain THE NIGHT LIGHT is all dark wood and leather and red and gold flocked wallpaper; the bar’s time era seems set somewhere between “Gold Rush” and “impossible future.” ...
( Category: Biomedical Engineering December 30,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-05-12 | Author:Steven Kotler

3. So what will this concept look like in our lifetime? Already, Planetary Resources has raised over $1.5 million to help launch the ARKYD 100 space telescope, which is specifically ...
( Category: Social Sciences December 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Gabriel Weimann

Vatis’s list provides a basis for classifying potential cyberattackers, though it does not include other categories of cyberattackers, including criminals who engage in extortion, identity theft, credit card and bank ...
( Category: Specific Topics December 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Martin [Martin, Richard]

SEVEN THE ASIAN NUCLEAR POWER RACE The island city of Mumbai, India’s cultural and business center, droops like an elephant’s trunk into the Arabian Sea. The Trombay district in the ...
( Category: Metallurgy December 25,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-12-07 | Author:David Wootton [Wootton, David]

13 The Disenchantment of the World Thus the growing process of intellectualization and rationalization does not imply a growing understanding of the conditions under which we live. It means something ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Mesler

J. B. S. Haldane in 1941. During his college years at Eton, Haldane so distinguished himself in the sciences that many of his fellow students felt as if he was ...
( Category: Biology December 21,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-05-07 | Author:Michael Hoskin [Hoskin, Michael]

Chapter 5 Astronomy in the age of Newton The outlook of the later Middle Ages had been dominated by Aristotle, and that of the Renaissance by Plato. But in the ...
( Category: Astronomy December 20,2015 )