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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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Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
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286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Over the past few decades physicists have discovered a phenomenon that operates outside the confines of space and time. Nonlocality is the ability of two particles to act in harmony no matter how far apart they may be. Einstein grappled with this oddity and couldn't come to terms with it, calling it 'spooky action at a distance'. This strange occurrance, which has direct connections to black holes, particle collisions and even the workings of gravity,...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
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xi, 370 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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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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Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2012
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4 DVDs (ca. 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 172 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
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"Time is as mysterious as it is familiar ..." An exploration of the mysteries of why time works the way it does "addressed by physics, philosophy, biology, neuroscience, and cosmology"--p. 1.
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
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xv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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"In The Hunt for Vulcan, Thomas Levenson follows the visionary scientists who inhabit the story of the phantom planet, starting with Isaac Newton, who in 1687 provided an explanation for all matter in motion throughout the universe, leading to Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier, who almost two centuries later built on Newton?s theories and discovered Neptune, becoming the most famous scientist in the world. Le Verrier attempted to surpass that triumph...
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Books on Tape
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p2011
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12 CDs (13 hrs. 49 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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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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Teaching Co
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c2000
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4 DVDs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (71 p. each ; 22 cm.)
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Takes the viewer from the early study of motion through the path of modern discovery of relativity, quantum phenomena and the consequences of these discoveries for our understanding of space, time and the universe.
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Dutton
Pub. Date
2022.
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x, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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This Way to the Universe is a celebration of the astounding, ongoing scientific investigations that have revealed the nature of reality at its smallest, at its largest, and at the scale of our daily lives. The enigmas that Professor Michael Dine discusses are like landmarks on a fantastic journey to the edge of the universe. Asked where to find out about the Big Bang, Dark Matter, the Higgs boson particle--the long cutting edge of physics right now--Dine...
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"Best known for his general theory of relativity and the famous equation linking mass and energy, E = mc², Albert Einstein had a lasting impact on the world of science, the extent of which is illuminated--along with his fascinating life and unique personality--in this lively history. In addition to learning all about Einstein's important contributions to science, from proving the existence and size of atoms and launching the field of quantum mechanics...
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In 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein's revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century's most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a global celebrity by confirming his dramatic prediction that the path of light rays would be bent by gravity. Today, Einstein's theory is scientific fact. Yet the effort to "weigh...
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Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2001
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10 DVDs (1800 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 331 p. ; 19 cm.).
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English novelist and scientist C. P. Snow classed certain scientific ideas with the works of Shakespeare as things every educated person should know. The lectures in this series explore the fundamental discoveries and principles of the physical and biological sciences--physics, genetics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, thermodynamics, and more--providing a comprehensive and integrated introduction to all of science. The Joy of Science,...
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