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Charles D. Bailyn is the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University. He is currently serving as dean of faculty at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. He was awarded the 2009 Bruno Rossi Prize from the American Astronomical Society for his work on measuring the masses of black holes.
A sophisticated introduction to how astronomers identify, observe, and understand black holes
Emitting no radiation or any other kind of...
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A Leading Figure in the Development of the New Cosmology Explains What It All Means
Among his peers, Alex Vilenkin is regarded as one of the most imaginative and creative cosmologists of our time. His contributions to our current understanding of the universe include a number of novel ideas, two of which-eternal cosmic inflation and the quantum creation of the universe from nothing-have provided a scientific foundation for the possible existence...
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¿Qué es la física? Según Albert Einstein, la ciencia cuyos asombrosos descubrimientos revolucionaron nuestra concepción del Universo no es más que un refinamiento del pensar ordinario.
Si es así ¿por qué ha de permanecer oculta al ciudadano común?
Ponerla al alcance de todos es el desafío que enfrenta con singular éxito Francisco Claro en estas breves páginas. ¿Qué son los agujeros negros? ¿Cuáles son los secretos del átomo? ¿Cómo...
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An adventure in scientific discovery Pluto, the farthermost planet in the solar system, some 3,673-million mites from the Sun, was, discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in 1930. The fiftieth anniversary of Pluto's discovery will be celebrated in 1980 and OUT OF THE DARKNESS: THE PLANET PLUTO tells the exciting scientific story of the twenty-five year search for a planet X beyond Neptune, and its discovery-the only planet found in...
25) Star Matters
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Many people on Earth think that we may have been visited by aliens. Conspiracy theorists believe that governments are aware and refuse to make this information public. These conspiracy theorists are correct.
In ages past the emerging human race on planet
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Joshua S. Bloom is associate professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley.
A brief, cutting-edge introduction to the brightest cosmic phenomena known to science
Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest-and, until recently, among the least understood-cosmic events in the universe. Discovered by chance during the cold war, these evanescent high-energy explosions confounded astronomers for decades. But a rapid series of startling breakthroughs...
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This book by a Nobel Laureate provides the foundation for analysis of stellar atmospheres, planetary illumination, and sky radiation. Radiation transfer has been investigated as a phenomenon of astrophysics, and it has attained wider interest because of similar problems in the theory of neutron diffusion. Suitable for students and professionals in physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, and atmospheric studies.
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Who are the extraordinary individuals that will take us on the next great space race, the next great human endeavor, our exploration and colonization of the planet Mars? And more importantly, how are they doing it? Acclaimed science writer Oliver Morton explores the peculiar and fascinating world of the new generation of explorers: geologists, scientists, astrophysicists and dreamers. Morton shows us the complex and beguiling role that mapping...
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Fundamentals of Living and Non-Living Universes addresses the most fundamental law that governs the known non-living universe and its extension into the living universes. The author discusses major misconceptions regarding both realms. He introduces three major concepts for the first time:
Infinity wall, which argues with an ever-expanding universe theory that is currently widely accepted in scientific society
Law of spontaneity, which describes...
30) Hurlburt Effect
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Hurlburt Effect depicts the effect of total mass of unobservable space on quantum levels and radiation of the astrophysics big bang hole on the unobservable universe and the localized, observable big bang and observable universe. There were major shifts in mass and density of the structures of the earlier, larger unobservable universe with the unobservable universe's later, smaller big bang. The most surrounding space is the big bang hole which caused...
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Using Space to Save Earth
Veteran science journalist William E Burrows offers a bold new mission for the U.S. space program: to protect the Earth from the ever-growing number of perils that threaten our way of life — and even our very survival.
We are living through one of the most dangerous times in human history. Nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons technology are proliferating, and missile technology is falling into more and more hands....
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Jean-Louis and Monique Tassoul received the 2001 Paul and Marie Stroobant Prize of the Académie Royale de Belgique for their work on stellar rotation and stellar stability. From 1968 to 1993, Jean-Louis, whose books include Theory of Rotating Stars (Princeton), was a faculty member of the Physics Department at the Université de Montréal.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of ideas about the sun and the stars, from antiquity...
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This book is a new theory of the evolution of Planets. The author seeks to solve the evolution /creation argument by demonstrating how they both have respective merit. The author takes the reader along a fascinating journey though ancient teachings, symbolism, religion, science and personal experience in a manner which allows for thought provoking discovery. The book explains the detailed formation of our solar system and how and why each planet has...
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Dr. Louis Komzsik is an engineer and mathematician, a graduate of the Technical University and the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, both in Budapest Hungary. He immigrated to the US in 1981 and since then worked as engineer in the industry and taught mathematics at several California universities.
He is the author of a handful of internationally known mathematical and engineering textbooks. In this easily readable volume, he wrote about the...
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This book advances a number of conjectures describing gravitational and inertial interactions and time dilation. A model is described that explains the gravitational and inertial interactions in a form that unlike geometric models depends on the exchange of particles. Time dilation has been defined as the decrease in the rate of flow of time in a frame moving with respect to an outside observer. In contrast to this definition, this book characterizes...
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The prospectus of humans living, working, and establishing communities in space can no longer be dismissed as the romantic notions of science fiction writers and space buffs. With the launch of the space shuttle human kind will enter a new era in space exploration, one giant step closer to the goal of human colonization. Our understanding of man's role in space is maturing, and the myths of life in space as a slick Buck Rogers episode or a scene from...
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La astrofísica es la física de las estrellas y, más ampliamente, la física del universo. Nos permite comprender la estructura y evolución de los sistemas planetarios, estrellas, galaxias y gas interestelar, y del cosmos como un todo.
En esta breve introducción, el destacado astrofísico James Binney explica cómo el campo de la astrofísica creció tan rápidamente en el siglo pasado, con enormes cantidades de datos recopilados por telescopios...
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To advance a model describing attributes of nature, we are free to claim properties of the model that we believe support those attributes. Absent real experiments we can perform thought experiments to evaluate whether the assumed properties of the model support the attributes we're attempting to model. At the same time, we must consider alternative models that may also support those attributes. Our model is not validated unless we can invalidate the...
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I am not the only one that noticed it. Thousands if not hundreds of thousands do believe in what I embrace today. Certainly not millions because I can see the darkness of the truth everywhere as I listen and watch the news. This lie is so ingrained in the minds of human beings that when you tell them the truth, they laugh. These people think you are crazy when you tell them the truth.
For many centuries we have been told that the earth is a Globe...
40) Full Free Motion of Celestial Bodies Around a Central Mass - Why Do They Mostly Orbit in the Equator
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The aim of this book is to provide a more efficient way to calculate and predict orbits and trajectories, not only for celestial bodies, but also for artificial satellites we send outside our atmosphere, and for ballistic. The equations presented here might also help improve weather forecasts and perhaps predict atmospheric behavior more precisely. Nowadays, we know that gravity is an electromagnetic (EM) wave of atomic origin caused by a kind of...
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