Cosmology 4

**"Delightful, funny, and yet rigorous and intelligent: only Jorge and Daniel can reach this exquisite balance." ーCarlo Rovelli, author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Helgoland You’ve got qu……続きを見る

Sin dai primordi dell’umanità, le cosiddette “pietre cadute dal cielo” hanno costituito per chi le ha osservate un mistero affascinante. In alcuni antichi scritti cinesi, greci e romani si descrive ……続きを見る

**‘If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe’ - Carl Sagan Inspired by Sagan’s famous line, How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch sets out on a journey to une……続きを見る

Gravity is one of the four fundamental interactions that exist in nature. It also has the distinction of being the oldest, weakest, and most difficult force to quantize. Understanding gravity is not……続きを見る

The problems of indeterminism, uncertainty and statistics in quantum theory are legend and have spawned a wide-variety of interpretations, none too satisfactory.The key issue of discontent is the co……続きを見る

Rudolf Steiner worked and reworked his Rosicrucian cosmology to make it increasingly precise and accurate. "An Outline of Occult Science" is as vital and relevant now as it was when first published ……続きを見る

Inflationary cosmology has been developed over the last twenty years to remedy serious shortcomings in the standard hot big bang model of the universe. This textbook, first published in 2005, explai……続きを見る

David Christian, creator of Big History ('My favourite course of all time' Bill Gates), brings us the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to the remote future……続きを見る

**From Nobel prize-winner Roger Penrose, this groundbreaking book is for anyone "who is interested in the world, how it works, and how it got here" (**New York Journal of Books). Penrose presents a ……続きを見る

**“Fundamentals might be the perfect book for the winter of this plague year. . . . Wilczek writes with breathtaking economy and clarity, and his pleasure in his subject is palpable.” ーThe New York……続きを見る

Covering all aspects of gravitation in a contemporary style, this advanced textbook is ideal for graduate students and researchers in all areas of theoretical physics. The 'Foundation' section devel……続きを見る

Eric Hedin was enjoying a productive career as a physics professor at Ball State University when the letter from a militant atheist arrived and all hell broke loose. The conflict spilled first onto ……続きを見る

Galaxies are the building blocks of the Universe: standing like islands in space, each is made up of many hundreds of millions of stars in which the chemical elements are made, around which planets ……続きを見る

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A whirlwind tour of fundamental physics and cosmology.”ーThe Wall Street Journal “Fascinating . . . a wealth of ideas [that] leave us with a clearer understanding of ……続きを見る

Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothe……続きを見る

Stephen Hawking, the next Einstein of the 21st century. He explores the mysteries of the universe with the help of modern physics and technology. The concepts of black holes, gravitational waves, ba……続きを見る

Opens a window into a previously dark and secret time in our universe's history: when the first stars were born. Astronomers have successfully observed a great deal of the Universe's history, from r……続きを見る

Forget about rockets to Mars – the future of space science lies with the search for exoplanets Twenty years ago, the search for planets outside the Solar System was the preserve of science-fiction w……続きを見る

The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which a……続きを見る

**Winner of the 2019 Whirling Prize “Strong on science but just this side of poetry.” ーNature A beautifully illustrated exploration of the principles, laws, and wonders that rule our universe, our ……続きを見る

The origin and evolution of the primordial perturbation is the key to understanding structure formation in the earliest stages of the Universe. It carries clues to the types of physical phenomena ac……続きを見る

The legendary physicist explores his favorite subject in a pair of enlightening, accessible, and cleverly illustrated essays for curious readers, originally delivered as BBC lectures. “It is said th……続きを見る

Einstein's General Theory of Relativity leads to two remarkable predictions: first, that the ultimate destiny of many massive stars is to undergo gravitational collapse and to disappear from view, l……続きを見る

Prepare to learn everything we still don’t know about our strange and mysterious universe Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore ……続きを見る

A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward? Time moves forward, not backwardーeveryon……続きを見る

“Creative Evolution” is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Within it, Bergson offers a version of orthogenesis to replace Darwin's evolutionary mechanism, which surmises that evolution……続きを見る

A narrative history of the men and women who have explored Mars and mapped its surface from afar, and in so doing conditioned our understanding of our nearest planetary neighbour. The maps of Mars a……続きを見る

What conceptual blind spot kept the ancient Greeks (unlike the Indians and Maya) from developing a concept of zero? Why did St. Augustine equate nothingness with the Devil? What tortuous means did 1……続きを見る

Seven hundred years ago, it was rational to be religious. Religion was the apex of a coherent worldview linking all of the knowledge of the world then available, including the science and cosmology ……続きを見る

Experience the cosmos as never before with UNIVERSE: The Solar System and Beyond Beginning with a fascinating overview and then organized by planet, this book takes us on a trip across time and spac……続きを見る