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"Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all--from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel. Describing the latest discoveries in astrophysics, the informative and entertaining...
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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xxi, 543 pages ; 25 cm.
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"Cosmology is in crisis. The more we discover, the more puzzling the universe appears to be. How and why are the laws of nature what they are? A philosopher and a physicist, world-renowned for their radical ideas in their fields, argue for a revolution. To keep cosmology scientific, we must replace the old view in which the universe is governed by immutable laws by a new one in which laws evolve. Then we can hope to explain them. The revolution that...
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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303 pages ; 24 cm
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"On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion years of time, it is physically impossible to make a better map: we will never see the early universe in more detail. On the one hand, such a view is the apotheosis of modern cosmology, on the other, it threatens to undermine almost everything we hold cosmologically sacrosanct. The map contains...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"In We Have No Idea, they explore the biggest unknowns in the universe, why these things are still mysteries, and what a lot of smart people are doing to figure out the answers (or at least ask the right questions). While they're at it, they helpfully demystify many complicated things we do know about, from quarks and neutrinos to gravitational waves and exploding black holes. With equal doses of humor and delight, they invite us to see the universe...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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viii, 226 pages ; 20 cm
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"As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a scientific view of the world. As a teenager experimenting in his own laboratory, he was impressed by the logic and materiality of a universe governed by a small number of disembodied forces and laws that decree all things in the world are material and impermanent. But one summer evening, while looking at the stars from a small boat at sea, Lightman was overcome by the overwhelming sensation that he...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2004
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xii, 569 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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"Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience....
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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xvi, 267 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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"This book provides a tour of the “greatest hits” of cosmological discoveries?the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Priyamvada Natarajan, our guide to these ideas, is someone at the forefront of the research?an astrophysicist who literally...
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Plume
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[2014]
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xiv, 511 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Using history, astrology, and synchronicity theory among other concepts, Wilcock shows that there is hidden architecture within time, guiding individuals and nations through a system of enlightenment Joseph Campbell called the Hero's Journey. Historical events occur in shockingly precise, repeating cycles of time as a result. Once we understand and identify the hidden laws of this seemingly random "synchronicity," we are left with a remarkable blueprint...
15) Universe
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DK Publishing
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Provides an in-depth, comprehensive look at the universe with a unique integration of words and pictures. Topics covered include: black holes, galaxies, the solar system, asteroids, meteors, meterorites, stars, quasars and more.
18) Crystals in the sky: an intellectual odyssey involving Chumash astronomy, cosmology and rock art
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Ballena Press anthropological papers volume no. 10
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Ballena Press
Pub. Date
1978
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BBC
Pub. Date
2010
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2 DVDs (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Examines how the story of humanity is linked to the story of the universe. Who are we? Why are we here? Where do we come from? These are among the most enduring and profound questions we can ask, and it is an essential part of human nature to want to find the answers. We can trace our ancestry back hundreds of thousands of years to the dawn of humankind, but in reality our story extends much further back: it starts with the beginning of the universe....
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Free Press
Pub. Date
2012
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xix, 202 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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"Internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss offers provocative, revelatory answers to the most basic philosophical questions: Where did our universe come from? Why is there something rather than nothing? And how is it all going to end? Why is there something rather than nothing? is asked of anyone who says there is no God. Yet this is not so much a philosophical or religious question as it is a question about...
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