Cosmology category: 730 books

One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, comes a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember...

By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, not the earth, at the center of our universe, and set the earth spinning among the other planets. Over the...

For centuries, it was assumed that our universe was static. In the late 1920s, astronomers defeated this assumption with a startling new discovery. From Earth, the light of distant galaxies appeared to be red, meaning that those galaxies were receding from us. This led to the revolutionary realization...

“A great read… Goldberg is an excellent guide.”—Mario Livio, bestselling author of The Golden Ratio   Physicist Dave Goldberg speeds across space, time and everything in between showing that our elegant universe—from the Higgs boson to antimatter to the most massive group of galaxies—is...

The bestselling author of Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home offers an intriguing new assessment of modern day science that will radically change the way we view what is possible. In Science Set Free (originally published to acclaim in the UK as The Science Delusion), Dr. Rupert...

Einstein stated that the universe could not be infinite unless matter became less dense the further you travelled from the centre of the universe, otherwise the gravity from all of the stars would accumulate and create infinite gravity. Einstein therefore believed that it was not possible for the...

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What would be the truth value of the statement, "Time has no beginning?" What existed a minute before the beginning of time? Are the past and the future alike? We know about fundamental particles near us. But beyond our universe, quadrillions of light years beyond the farthest heavenly body that exists,...

Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Georges Lemaître in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the work of Georges Lemaître. An unlikely combination of a priest and a physicist who was responsible for the theories of...

An analysis of Dark Energy as an Inflationary force with instructions on two experiments to prove the supposition. With a theoretical description of a unified theory based on an inflationary universe and an explanation of the life cycle of creation.

"Un relato elegante, instructivo y en ocasiones emotivo, libre de tecnicismos, sobre las poderosas influencias científicas, filosóficas y humanitarias que subyacen tras los impulsos personales de este prestigioso físico matemático. Lo recomiendo vivamente." Sir Roger Penrose, autor de...

Did you ever wonder how we came to be here? How did the universe come into existence? How did the first people appear? This book takes only a few minutes to read but answers the most important questions a person could (should!) ask themselves as they work out our their meaning and purpose in life. Written with teenagers in mind but could provide an epiphany or two for adult readers too.

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 looking at the return of Nibiru as the explanation.But where is it? This short piece looks at a possible explanation of what Nibiru is and why we cant see it.

Lo! was Charles Fort's third book. In it Fort examines a multitude of scientific anomalies. Fort is widely credited to have coined the now-popular term teleportation in this book, and here he ties his previous statements on what he referred to as the Super-Sargasso Sea into his beliefs on teleportation....