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1) Yesterday's Thief, Tomorrow's Science: A Look at the Real-life Technology Behind Eric Beckman's Worl
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This short nonfiction book takes a look at some of the science and technology described in the popular science fiction novel, Yesterday's Thief.Here are some of the questions it answers:• Can earthquakes be predicted?• Is mind reading possible?• What are space-time crystals?• Do people really try to steal power?• What kind of time travel is possible (and happens every day)?• Is it really possible to artificially inseminate three thousand...
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This book provides an introspection into overlooked aspects of physical science: overrated standards, an Aristotelian perspective, and underappreciated paradigms. Combining two works, it explores physical science - describing the world scientifically and consistently - through two themes.
First, it shows that while an experimental hypothesis approach succeeds due to the availability of the physical world, other strategies exist. The author proposes...
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"What a splendid book! Reading it is a joy, and for me, at least, continuing reading it became compulsive. . . . Chandrasekhar is a distinguished astrophysicist and every one of the lectures bears the hallmark of all his work: precision, thoroughness, lucidity."-Sir Hermann Bondi, Nature
The late S. Chandrasekhar was best known for his discovery of the upper
limit to the mass of a white dwarf star, for which he received the Nobel
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"Wald's book is clearly the first textbook on general relativity with a totally modern point of view; and it succeeds very well where others are only partially successful. The book includes full discussions of many problems of current interest which are not treated in any extant book, and all these matters are considered with perception and understanding."-S. Chandrasekhar
"A tour de force: lucid, straightforward, mathematically rigorous, exacting...
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"This beautiful little book is certainly suitable for anyone who has had an introductory course in physics and even for some who have not."-Joshua N. Goldberg, Physics Today
"An imaginative and convincing new presentation of Einstein's theory of general relativity. . . . The treatment is masterful, continual emphasis being placed on careful discussion and motivation, with the aim of showing how physicists think and develop their ideas."-Choice
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Practically all of modern physics deals with fields-functions of space (or spacetime) that give the value of a certain quantity, such as the temperature, in terms of its location within a prescribed volume. Electrodynamics is a comprehensive study of the field produced by (and interacting with) charged particles, which in practice means almost all matter.
Fulvio Melia's Electrodynamics offers a concise, compact, yet complete treatment of this important...
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En este libro se presentan los siguientes temas:descripción del sistema solarclasificacion y evolucion de las estrellasprocesos nucleares interestelaresLas galaxias y su evolución desde una perspectiva cosmogónica.cuásares, novas, supernovas, nebulosas, estrellas binarias y de neutronesmediciones astronómicas e instrumentos de medición
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The answer to the biggest mysteries in physics can be found in the simple notion that, contrary to conventional theory, all things, including space itself, are composed of electromagnetic waves. Together, the waves form a substance or field separate from the immutable spatial dimensions in which that substance sits and deforms. Being the same substance, where matter is denser, space is denser also, resulting in the "warping of the fabric of spacetime"...
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One of The Barnes and Noble Review Editors' Picks: Best Nonfiction of 2012
Selected by The Christian Science Monitor as one of "21 smart nonfiction titles we think you'll enjoy this summer"
Selected by The New Scientist as one of 10 books to look out for in 2012
We've long understood black holes to be the points at which the universe as we know it comes to an end. Often billions of times more massive than the Sun, they lurk in the inner sanctum...
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To see video demonstrations of key concepts from the book, please visit this website: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/sites/timewarp/
Sci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe that can't be averted? Just pop back in the timestream and stop it before it starts. But for those of us not lucky enough to live in a science-fictional universe,...
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The educated public have long been regaled with "the mysteries of quantum physics", which enshroud far - flung claims about the fundamental nature of matter. These rely on a stunning proposition of quantum theory arising in the 1960s and contested through the subsequent sixty years: that the probabilities deriving from it defy a mathematical inequality known as Bell's inequality. John Bell himself, who formulated the problem, was puzzled by the result,...
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Einstein's steadfast refusal to accept certain aspects of quantum theory was rooted in his insistence that physics has to be about reality. Accordingly, he once derided as "spooky action at a distance" the notion that two elementary particles far removed from each other could nonetheless influence each other's properties-a hypothetical phenomenon his fellow theorist Erwin Schrödinger termed "quantum entanglement."
In a series of ingenious experiments...
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If you think that electricity is some kind of juice that burns in your lamp like a candle, or if you worry about violating Ohm's law, then this book is for you. On the other hand, if you know that a complete circuit is required for current to flow, but wonder whether higher voltage or higher current will kill you first, then this book is also for you. Even if you understand how electricity animates your vacuum cleaner, but are a little hazy about...
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How Did the Theory of Relativity Come to Be? This short booklet is based on Einstein's 1921 manuscript, "A Brief Outline of the Development of the Theory of Relativity" (in German). This article was written by the request of the scientific journal, Nature, and it was published (translated into English) as the first article of the special issue dedicated to relativity, in February 1921. This special issue of Nature also included other papers by various...
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La formación en física nuclear y en psicoanálisis de Gerardo Arenas suscitó su interés por entender la relación entre estos dos ámbitos, aparentemente tan opuestos. De su inclinación iconoclasta y de su estilo de pensamiento son testimonio esta recopilación de artículos en los que no se expone una tesis sino puntos de vista -de los que no está ausente la autocrítica-, acerca de diversos aspectos del oscuro campo donde coinciden, interactúan...
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What is the Special Principle of Relativity?This short article is one of the very first scientific essays written by Einstein intended for the general, non-scientist, audience. It was originally written, in 1914, for the readers of one of the most widely-read newspapers in Germany at the time. Einstein published his two seminal papers on special relativity in 1905, and his work was gradually being recognized. In 1913, Max Planck and Walther Nernst...
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In the years since the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and Opportunity first began transmitting images from the surface of Mars, we have become familiar with the harsh, rocky, rusty-red Martian landscape. But those images are much less straightforward than they may seem to a layperson: each one is the result of a complicated set of decisions and processes involving the large team behind the Rovers.
With Seeing Like a Rover, Janet Vertesi takes us...
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