著者:Joseph Mazur
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年04月19日
The epic tale of an ancient, unsolved puzzle and how it relates to all scientific attempts to explain the basic structure of the universe
At the dawn of science the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno fo……続きを見る
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
The inspiration for the HBO Original documentary Wild Wild Space, now streaming on Max
A momentous look at the private companies building a revolutionary new eco……続きを見る
著者:Joseph Mazur
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2008年03月25日
The fascinating story of an ancient riddle and what it reveals about the nature of time and space
Three millennia ago, the Greek philosopher Zeno constructed a series of logical paradoxes to prove t……続きを見る
著者:Brian Greene
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2020年02月18日
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose, from the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe.
"Few humans s……続きを見る
Multiverses, or multiple universes. Do they exist?
The author suggests they do in this novel approach to the issue, with some interesting consequences for fans of time travel.
A short yet thought pr……続きを見る
著者:Sean Carroll
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年01月07日
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
著者:Jay Griffiths
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2004年03月08日
A brilliant and poetic exploration of the way that we experience time in our everyday lives.
Why does time seem so short? How does women's time differ from men's? Why does time seem to move slowly i……続きを見る
This is not a book on mysticism, or religious thought. The more one studies modern science the more one realises that the same themes run through Bereshis (Genesis). The order of creation from mode……続きを見る
著者:Fred Alan Wolf
出版社: Hierophant Publishing
発売日: 2011年03月01日
In his most important book since Taking the Quantum Leap, Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., explains how our understanding of time, space, and matter have changed in just the last few years, and how with these……続きを見る
This book is about how big is the universe and how small are quarks, and what are the sizes of dozens of things between these two extremes. It describes the sizes of atoms and planets, quarks and ga……続きを見る
著者:Peter Galison
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2013年10月20日
"More than a history of science; it is a tour de force in the genre." ーNew York Times Book Review
A dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary ……続きを見る
What do we mean when we say, "I made the time pass more quickly," or, "I’m creating some ‘me’ time"? InThe Textures of Time, Michael Flaherty examines how we alter or customize our experience of tim……続きを見る
Look through a flat 2-dimensional hologram like the one on your credit card and a 3rd dimension will appear behind it. This is a result of light-wave interference patterns. This same principle allow……続きを見る
Novelist, cultural commentator, memoirist, and historian Eva Hoffman examines our ever-changing perception of time in this inspired addition to the BIG IDEAS/small books series
Time has always been ……続きを見る
Collins Shorts – insight in an instant.
Professor Brian Cox shows us our universe as we've never seen it before. In this short he explains how this vast and complex universe – the subject of human f……続きを見る
This fascinating work begins with a scientific appraisal of time and its relationship with 3D space. It explains in clear, understandable language, the complex theories of such famous men as Newton,……続きを見る
著者:David Toomey
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2011年02月14日
The story of physicists' quest to answer a mind-boggling question: How can we travel through time?
Since H. G. Wells' 1895 classic The Time Machine, readers of science fiction have puzzled over the ……続きを見る
Since the ancients, physicists have argued that time is not real, that we may think we experience time passing but it's just a human illusion in a timeless universe operating on predetermined laws. ……続きを見る
著者:Brian Greene
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes “an astonishing ride” through the universe (The New York Times)……続きを見る
著者:Elizabeth Grosz
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2004年12月06日
In this pathbreaking philosophical work, Elizabeth Grosz points the way toward a theory of becoming to replace the prevailing ontologies of being in social, political, and biological discourse. Argu……続きを見る
著者:William James
出版社: Read Books Ltd.
発売日: 2013年04月16日
This is Part I of a fascinating insight into the history of psychological theory by American psychologist William James. “The Principles of Psychology” will appeal to those with an interest in the h……続きを見る
著者:Adrian Bardon
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA
発売日: 2013年06月07日
Adrian Bardon's A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time is a short introduction to the history, philosophy, and science of the study of time-from the pre-Socratic philosophers through Einstein and……続きを見る
The full story of man’s attempt to discover the moment that time began, from James Ussher’s confident assertion in 1650 that the world was 5,654 years old to the Hubble Space telescope’s images of a……続きを見る
This is a book about universes. It tells a story that revolves around a single extraordinary fact: that Albert Einstein's famous theory of relativity describes a series of entire universes. Not many……続きを見る
In this new edition of Questioning the Millennium, best-selling author Stephen Jay Gould applies his wit and erudition to one of today's most pressing subjects: the significance of the millennium.
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"Bucky Fuller thought big," Wired magazine recently noted, "Arthur C. Clarke thinks big, but Cliff Pickover outdoes them both." And now, in his newest book, Cliff Pickover outdoes even himself, prob……続きを見る
Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary……続きを見る
In the 1970's, the idea of a mystery Planet X, or Nibiru, was put forward based on ancient Sumerian texts.
Science can't find the planet.
With an increase in major earthquakes and storms, many are l……続きを見る
Why do we measure time in the way that we do? Why is a week seven days long? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? Why are some calendars lunar and some solar? The organisation of t……続きを見る