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Pub. Date
2016.
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"Seven Brief Lessons on Physics is a book about the joy of discovery. Carlo Rovelli brings a playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, offering surprisingand surprisingly easy to graspexplanations of Einstein's general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world. He takes us to the frontiers...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (36 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Combines live action with state-of-the-art computer-generated imagery to pinpoint where humans fit in our ever-expanding universe. Explore scientific theories, some of which have never before been visualized on film, from the birth of the cosmos and solar system to the nature of black holes and exploding supernovas.
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2011
Physical Desc
12 CDs (13 hrs. 49 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Discusses recent discoveries in physics and cosmology to explore a range of multiverse proposals, and examines how the knowledge that some aspects of reality may lie beyond human comprehension might affect scientific progress.
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"The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist. What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly,...
Author
Series
Detective Galileo mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 25 cm.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
x, 341 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Scientists have just announced an historic discovery on a par with the splitting of the atom: the Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists has been found. Carroll takes readers behind the scenes of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to meet the scientists and explain this landmark event. We only discovered the electron just over a hundred years ago and considering where that took us-- from nuclear energy to quantum computing-- the inventions...
11) Event Horizon
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 2047 a rescue team travels into deep space in search of a lost research vessel and finds a dimensional portal to hell.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Description
Rachel Carson once wrote, "It is not half so important to know as to feel." What do we know about clouds? There are three basic types: stratus, cumulus, and cirrus. Some are fleecy and fair-weathered while others portend storms. But clouds are more than pretty or ominous backdrops. They're the vehicle of water between sea and land, land and sea, in a cycle without end or beginning. They are the writing of the wind on the sky, a language all their...
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