Category: Cosmology

Un libro que nos muestra desde los angeles altura de los ojos de un niño todo lo que los mayores siempre hemos querido saber sobre el fascinante universo.

Un padre se propone explicar a su hijo qué sabe los angeles ciencia sobre el universo, desde lo asombrosamente grande hasta lo más diminuto, desde las galaxias gigantes hasta las más insólitas teorías acerca de l. a. materia... Tal vez, sin esa relación basada en el amor, no habría sido posible escribir algo así; contarlo todo partiendo de cero, sin dar nada por sentado.

Las primeras y valientes refl exiones del viejo Demócrito de Abdera, las teorías de Newton sobre l. a. gravitación y l. a. luz, los angeles relatividad especial y common de Einstein, los modelos atómicos de Rutherford y Bohr, sin dejar aquellos nombres que siempre terminan olvidándose: Lemaître, el sacerdote que propuso por primera vez los angeles teoría del monstrous Bang, o Cavendish, el científi co más tímido del mundo. Todo ello está aquí, en este compendio riguroso, imaginativo y de fácil lectura. Juan Carlos Ortega, nacido en Barcelona en 1968, siempre ha tenido un claro interés por l. a. divulgación científi ca. Durante cinco años fue el responsable de los angeles sección de ciencia del programa «No es un día cualquiera», de Radio Nacional de España (RNE), y hasta hace poco presentaba el espacio «Historia de los angeles ciencia» en «La noche en vela», también de RNE. En l. a. actualidad es el presentador del programa de divulgación cultural «La mitad invisible», de l. a. 2. Como humorista, participa diariamente en el programa «Hoy por hoy», de l. a. Cadena Ser, y presenta también espacios de humor en «No es un día cualquiera», de RNE. Es

«El universo para Ulises es l. a. ciencia lo que en su día fue El mundo de Sofía a los angeles filosofía.» Gemma Nierga

Even ahead of the current Administrator of NASA, Daniel Goldin, made the word 'better, speedier, more cost-effective' the slogan of not less than the place of work of house technological know-how, that very same place of work lower than the affiliate Administrator of Lennard Fisk and its department of sunlight process Exploration below the course of Wes Huntress had began a chain of planetary spacecraft whose developmental expense, section CID within the parlance of the exchange, used to be to be held to less than $150M. with the intention to get this system underway quickly they selected missions with no the open solicitation now the hallmark of this system. this kind of missions, JPL' s Mars Pathfinder, was once to be a expertise demonstration project with little rapid technology go back that might let later excessive precedence technological know-how missions to Mars. a number of the technology investigations that have been incorporated had major overseas contributions to maintain NASA's expense of the venture in the Discovery price range. the second one of those missions and the 1st to be introduced was once the close to Earth Asteroid Rendezvous challenge, or close to, provided to Johns Hopkins University's utilized Physics Laboratory. This undertaking was once rather varied than Mars Pathfinder, being taken from the checklist of excessive precedence targets of the technology group and emphasizing the technology go back and never the expertise improvement of the venture. This undertaking used to be additionally to end up to be good lower than the $150M section CID cap.

This complex undergraduate textual content introduces Einstein's basic thought of relativity. the subjects lined comprise geometric formula of specified relativity, the primary of equivalence, Einstein's box equation and its spherical-symmetric answer, in addition to cosmology. An emphasis is put on actual examples and easy functions with no the total tensor gear. It starts off by way of interpreting the physics of the equivalence precept and appears at the way it inspired
Einstein's concept of curved spacetime because the gravitational box. At a extra mathematically available point, it offers a metric description of a warped house, permitting the reader to check many fascinating phenomena resembling gravitational time dilation, GPS operation, gentle deflection, precession of
Mercury's perihelion, and black holes. quite a few smooth subject matters in cosmology are mentioned from primordial inflation and cosmic microwave history to the darkish strength that propels an accelerating universe.

Building on Cheng's earlier ebook, 'Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology: A simple Introduction', this article has been adapted to the complicated scholar. It concentrates at the middle parts of the topic making it compatible for a one-semester direction on the undergraduate point. it could actually additionally function an available advent of normal relativity and cosmology for these readers who are looking to learn the topic all alone. the correct tensor formula of Einstein's box equation is gifted in
an appendix bankruptcy for these wishing to glimpse extra on the mathematical details.

John Sallis dismantles the normal belief of nature during this booklet of mind's eye and the cosmos. within the considered Emerson, Hegel, and Schelling, Sallis discerns the seeds of an knowing of nature that is going opposed to the trendy technological attack on traditional issues and opens an area for a revitalized method of the area. He identifies basic reorientations that philosophical suggestion is named directly to tackle at the present time: the flip to the fundamental in nature and the flip from nature to the cosmos at huge. He lines the elusive process the mind's eye, as though coming from nowhere, and describes the way it bears at the relation of people to nature. Sallis's account demonstrates renewal of our knowing of nature is among the top imperatives we call for from philosophy today.

Die großen Fragen behandeln grundlegende Probleme und Konzepte in Wissenschaft und Philosophie, die Forscher und Denker seit jeher umtreiben. Anspruch der ambitionierten Reihe ist es, die Antworten auf diese Fragen zu präsentieren und damit die wichtigsten Gedanken der Menschheit in einzigartigen Übersichten zu bündeln. Im vorliegenden Band Universum geht Stuart Clark den 20 entscheidenden Fragen der Astronomie, Kosmologie und letztlich unserer Existenz nach.

The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia is an A-to-Z of the quest for all times within the Universe. Entries hide astrobiology, the origins and evolution of existence, the quest for exoplanets, SETI, and extraterrestrial lifestyles in technological know-how fiction, philosophy, and renowned hypothesis (including UFOs). The e-book is written in an interesting type for the layperson and comprises a variety of B&W illustrations.

David Darling is a technology author with a Ph.D. astronomy. he's the writer of extra forty books, together with Equations of Eternity (a long island instances impressive booklet of the Year), lifestyles all over, Gravity's Arc, and, with Dirk-Schulze-Makuch, we aren't on my own, and Megacatastrophes! His most up-to-date ebook is Mayday! approximately pioneering aviators. His technological know-how site, www.daviddarling.info, is a well-liked net source. He lives in Dundee, Scotland.

Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a professor on the university of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Washington country college, and has released seven books regarding the sector of astrobiology and planetary habitability, together with existence within the Universe, A a method project to Mars, and Cosmic Biology. he's additionally an accessory professor on the past middle at Arizona kingdom college and at present additionally holds a visitor professorship on the Technical collage Berlin in Germany.

Keywords: Encylopedia, ET, SETI, technological know-how, Extraterrestrial, Origins, Evolution, Planets, Universe, David, Darling, Dirk, Schulze Makuch, Stars, Life

The beginning and evolution of our sunlight process is a tantalizing secret that could someday supply solutions to the query of human origins. From dirt to Life tells the amazing tale of ways the celestial items that make up the sunlight process arose from universal beginnings billions of years in the past, and the way scientists and philosophers have sought to resolve this secret down in the course of the centuries, piecing jointly the clues that enabled them to infer the sunlight system's format, its age, and the main most probably approach it formed.

Drawing at the background of astronomy and the most recent findings in astrophysics and the planetary sciences, John Chambers and Jacqueline Mitton supply the main up to date and authoritative therapy of the topic to be had. They learn how the evolving universe set the level for the looks of our sunlight, and the way the nebulous cloud of gasoline and dirt that followed the younger solar finally turned the planets, comets, moons, and asteroids that exist at the present time. They discover how all of the planets got its particular features, why a few are rocky and others gaseous, and why one planet in particular--our Earth--provided a virtually excellent haven for the emergence of life.

From airborne dirt and dust to existence is a must-read for somebody who wants to comprehend extra approximately how the sun approach got here to be. This engaging publication takes readers to the very frontiers of recent study, attractive with the most recent controversies and debates. It finds how ongoing discoveries of far-distant extrasolar planets and planetary structures are remodeling our figuring out of our personal sunlight system's impressive heritage and its attainable fate.

«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 El camino a los angeles realidad

En esta obra own, visionaria y fascinante, Neil Turok, uno de los principales físicos teóricos mundiales, explora los descubrimientos científicos transformadores de los tres últimos siglos, desde l. a. mecánica clásica hasta los angeles naturaleza de los angeles luz, desde el extraño mundo de los cuantos hasta los angeles evolución del cosmos. Con el tiempo, cada nuevo descubrimiento ha producido tecnologías que conllevan cambios de paradigma en l. a. estructura de l. a. sociedad. Ahora, afirma el autor, nos hallamos en el umbral de otra transformación importante: l. a. revolución cuántica inminente que sustituirá nuestra insatisfactoria period electronic. Ante este nuevo mundo feliz, Turok llama a reinventar creativamente l. a. manera de desarrollar y compartir el conocimiento avanzado, y a hacer posible el acceso a los enormes depósitos de talento intelectual, todavía por explorar, del mundo en vías de desarrollo. los angeles investigación, los angeles enseñanza y los angeles divulgación científicas son vitales para nuestra economía futura, a los angeles vez que poderosas fuerzas para un progreso international pacífico.
Con una prosa delicada, profundamente sugestiva y muy inspiradora, El universo está dentro de nosotros aborda, por encima de todo, el futuro; el de l. a. ciencia, el de l. a. sociedad y el nuestro.

The conceptual adjustments introduced through sleek physics are vital, radical and interesting, but they're merely vaguely understood via humans operating outdoor the sphere. Exploring the 4 pillars of recent physics – relativity, quantum mechanics, common debris and cosmology – this transparent and vigorous account will curiosity somebody who has puzzled what Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger and Heisenberg have been particularly speaking approximately. The booklet discusses quarks and leptons, antiparticles and Feynman diagrams, curved space-time, the massive Bang and the increasing Universe. compatible for undergraduate scholars in non-science in addition to technology matters, it makes use of difficulties and labored examples to aid readers advance an knowing of what contemporary advances in physics really mean.