Cosmology category: 730 books
Life as We Do Not Know It
The NASA Search for (and Synthesis of) Alien Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
An engrossing and revelatory first look at the search for alien life-on Earth and beyond
For the past twenty years, Peter Ward has been at the forefront of popular science writing, with books such as the influential and controversial Rare Earth. In Life as We Do Not Know It, Ward, with his...
by John Cramer
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2011
How alien would aliens be? Would they look like us or perhaps more like an octopus? How would they communicate? Could we even hear their voices, assuming they have them? Like us, aliens would be constrained by the physical world. Understanding how those physical constraints apply both to us and to...
by Forest Ray Moulton, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
An Introduction to Astronomy by F.R. Moulton - The definitive text for learning about the amazing science of Astronomy.
The progress of mankind has been marked by a number of great intellectual movements. At one time the ideas of men were expanding with the knowledge which they were obtaining...
The Omniverse
Transdimensional Intelligence, Time Travel, the Afterlife, and the Secret Colony on Mars
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
A tour through the new science of the Omniverse, its spiritual and physical dimensions, and its incalculable intelligent civilizations
• Reveals the key travel and communication technologies of the Omniverse: time travel, teleportation, and telepathy
• Unveils newly disclosed state...
The Labyrinth of Time
Introducing the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2007
Modern physics has revealed the universe as a much stranger place than we could have imagined. The puzzle at the centre of our knowledge of the universe is time. Michael Lockwood takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the nature of things. He investigates philosophical questions about past,...
At Home in the Universe
The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1996
A major scientific revolution has begun, a new paradigm that rivals Darwin's theory in importance. At its heart is the discovery of the order that lies deep within the most complex of systems, from the origin of life, to the workings of giant corporations, to the rise and fall of great civilizations....
by Hans C. Ohanian
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
“A thought-provoking critique of Einstein’s tantalizing combination of brilliance and blunder.”—Andrew Robinson, New Scientist
Never before translated into English, the Manimekhalai is one of the great classics of Indian culture.
The Copernicus Complex
Our Cosmic Significance in a Universe of Planets and Probabilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Short-listed for Physics World**'s** Book of the Year
The Sunday Times (UK) Best Science Book of 2014
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2014
An NBC News Top Science and Tech Book of 2014
A Politics & Prose 2014...
The Universe as It Really Is
Earth, Space, Matter, and Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The universe that science reveals to us can seem far outside the comfort zone of the human mind. Subjects near and far open up dizzying vistas, from the infinitesimal to the colossal. Humanity, the unlikely product of uncountable coincidences on unimaginable scales, inhabits a tumultuous universe...
A Journey Through The Universe:
A traveler's guide from the center of the sun to the edge of the unknown
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
There's a whole universe out there ... and this book is your journey into space.
Imagine you had a spacecraft capable of travelling through interstellar space. You climb in, blast into orbit, fly out of the solar system and keep going. Where do you end up, and what do you see along the way?
The...
by David Darling
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
What would it be like to see the whole history of the universe, from the moment of creation to the farthest future? Deep Time shows us – through the eyes of a single particle that emerges from the fires of genesis then journeys across countless billions of years to glimpse the ultimate fate of the cosmos.
by S. W. Hawking, G. F. R. Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 1975
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, leaving behind a 'black hole' in space; and secondly, that there will exist singularities in space-time...
by John Mac
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Part 1 of 4. Take a beautifully simplistic journey of fact and modern theory across the mysteries of our Universe in this first part of a quadrilogy of E-books. Discover the amazing you and the quantum certainty of another you, to the birth of a Universe in a Multi-verse, to the formation of a solar...
by Jean-Nichol Dufour
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
This is part 6 of a 10 books suite. Creator species, the UI, gods, life, extraterrestrials are the main subjects. It`s about all the intelligences involved in the human creation, and the universe creation a lot too.
I will describe how i see a universe reformulation, time, what is fundamental...