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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A leading physicist unravels the mysteries of the universe through pleasingly paradoxical Zen- style vignettes. Cosmological Koans takes a fresh approach to explaining the most mind- bending concepts in physics and cosmology by invoking the ancient Zen tradition of the Koan. Anthony Aguirre presents more than fifty beguiling Koans (Could there be a civilization in a mote of dust? How much of your fate have you made? Who cleans the universe?) that...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The Big Bang, the formation of the planets, and the origins of life on Earth are made accessible and fascinating in a poetic, jazzy, free-flowing exploration of space, the solar system, and how we all got here. With its rhythmic, and engaging style, this book is a unique and captivating approach to science and STEM topics that will have kids asking to read it again and again while learning lessons and concepts that really stick. Parents and teachers...
Author
Series
Harper torchbooks volume 1910
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1969, c1965
Language
English
55) My brief history
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cosmologist Stephen Hawking tells the story of his life in his own words, in a book expanded from a lecture of the same name.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Time tends to be considered uniform and universal, but it may be much more complicated than that. In fact, the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it becomes. In lyric, accessible prose, Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle the best minds.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
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 at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where did these laws and these constants come from? And why are the laws so fruitful when written in the language of mathematics? Peter Atkins considers the minimum effort needed to equip the Universe with...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"After a few billion years of bearing witness to life on Earth, of watching one hundred billion humans go about their day-to-day lives, of feeling unbelievably lonely, and of hearing its own story told by others, the Milky Way would like a chance to speak for itself. All one hundred billion stars and fifty undecillion tons of gas of it. It all began some thirteen billion years ago, when clouds of gas scattered through the universe's primordial plasma...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Stephen Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar's final thoughts on the cosmos--a dramatic revision of the theory that made him the heir to Einstein's legacy. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life. Pondering this mystery led Hawking to study the big bang origin of the universe, but his early...
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