Mysterious Fires and Lights: Weird and Amazing Events That Science Cannot Explain

Mysterious Fires and Lights: Weird and Amazing Events That Science Cannot Explain
Author: Vincent Gaddis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2017-03-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781542408622

In "Mysterious Fires and Lights," veteran paranormal researcher Vincent Gaddis brings you:-The evidence for UFOs, with the latest testimony of Air Force specialists and lay observers.-The weird antics of ball lightning.-Human beings who have become human torches.-Electronic whirlpools.-Strange holocausts that have destroyed entire cities and cultures.-The mysterious "foo fighters" reported by airplane pilots.-Fires that burn but do not consume.-Bizarre cases of houses that have actually destroyed themselves.Never before has such a carefully researched book brought together so vast an array of startling occurrences. Dramatic new theories are presented, which may produce the vital key in breaking through the knowledge barrier separating us from a complete understanding of the plastic nature of reality.

13 Things That Don't Make Sense

13 Things That Don't Make Sense
Author: Michael Brooks
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2010-07-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1847651305

Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense. Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar anomalies have revolutionised our world: in the sixteenth century, a set of celestial irregularities led Copernicus to realise that the Earth goes around the sun and not the reverse. In 13 Things That Don't Make Sense Michael Brooks meets thirteen modern-day anomalies that may become tomorrow's breakthroughs. Is ninety six percent of the universe missing? If no study has ever been able to definitively show that the placebo effect works, why has it become a pillar of medical science? Was the 1977 signal from outer space a transmission from an alien civilization? Spanning fields from chemistry to cosmology, psychology to physics, Michael Brooks thrillingly captures the excitement and controversy of the scientific unknown.

Biocentrism

Biocentrism
Author: Robert Lanza
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2011
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1458795179

Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world a US News and World Report cover story called him a genius and a renegade thinker, even likening him to Einstein. Lanza has teamed with Bob Berman, the most widely read astronomer in the world, to produce Biocentrism, a revolutionary new view of the universe. Every now and then a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ultimately changed the way people perceived themselves and their relationship with the world. For most humans of the 15th century, the notion of Earth as ball of rock was nonsense. The whole of Western, natural philosophy is undergoing a sea change again, increasingly being forced upon us by the experimental findings of quantum theory, and at the same time, toward doubt and uncertainty in the physical explanations of the universes genesis and structure. Biocentrism completes this shift in worldview, turning the planet upside down again with the revolutionary view that life creates the universe instead of the other way around. In this paradigm, life is not an accidental byproduct of the laws of physics. Biocentrism takes the reader on a seemingly improbable but ultimately inescapable journey through a foreign universe our own from the viewpoints of an acclaimed biologist and a leading astronomer. Switching perspective from physics to biology unlocks the cages in which Western science has unwittingly managed to confine itself. Biocentrism will shatter the readers ideas of life--time and space, and even death. At the same time it will release us from the dull worldview of life being merely the activity of an admixture of carbon and a few other elements; it suggests the exhilarating possibility that life is fundamentally immortal. The 21st century is predicted to be the Century of Biology, a shift from the previous century dominated by physics. It seems fitting, then, to begin the century by turning the universe outside-in and unifying the foundations of science with a simple idea discovered by one of the leading life-scientists of our age. Biocentrism awakens in readers a new sense of possibility, and is full of so many shocking new perspectives that the reader will never see reality the same way again.

QED

QED
Author: Richard P. Feynman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2014-10-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 140084746X

Feynman’s bestselling introduction to the mind-blowing physics of QED—presented with humor, not mathematics Celebrated for his brilliantly quirky insights into the physical world, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for explaining difficult concepts to the public. In this extraordinary book, Feynman provides a lively and accessible introduction to QED, or quantum electrodynamics, an area of quantum field theory that describes the interactions of light with charged particles. Using everyday language, spatial concepts, visualizations, and his renowned Feynman diagrams instead of advanced mathematics, Feynman clearly and humorously communicates the substance and spirit of QED to the nonscientist. With an incisive introduction by A. Zee that places Feynman’s contribution to QED in historical context and highlights Feynman’s uniquely appealing and illuminating style, this Princeton Science Library edition of QED makes Feynman’s legendary talks on quantum electrodynamics available to a new generation of readers.

Explaining the Unexplained

Explaining the Unexplained
Author: Hans Jurgen Eysenck
Publisher: Avery Publishing Group
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1993
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781853751202

Stranger Than Science

Stranger Than Science
Author: Frank Edwards
Publisher: Carol Paperbacks
Total Pages: 303
Release: 1992-05-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780821625132

Presents accounts of true and unusual incidents that are unable to be explained by modern science

Science And Human Behavior

Science And Human Behavior
Author: B.F Skinner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2012-12-18
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1476716153

The psychology classic—a detailed study of scientific theories of human nature and the possible ways in which human behavior can be predicted and controlled—from one of the most influential behaviorists of the twentieth century and the author of Walden Two. “This is an important book, exceptionally well written, and logically consistent with the basic premise of the unitary nature of science. Many students of society and culture would take violent issue with most of the things that Skinner has to say, but even those who disagree most will find this a stimulating book.” —Samuel M. Strong, The American Journal of Sociology “This is a remarkable book—remarkable in that it presents a strong, consistent, and all but exhaustive case for a natural science of human behavior…It ought to be…valuable for those whose preferences lie with, as well as those whose preferences stand against, a behavioristic approach to human activity.” —Harry Prosch, Ethics

The Strange Order of Things

The Strange Order of Things
Author: Antonio Damasio
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0307908763

From one of our preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of understanding the origins of life, feeling, and culture. The Strange Order of Things is a pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular life and other primitive life-forms; and that inherent in our very chemistry is a powerful force, a striving toward life maintenance that governs life in all its guises, including the development of genes that help regulate and transmit life. In The Strange Order of Things, Damasio gives us a new way of comprehending the world and our place in it.

The Mystery of Consciousness

The Mystery of Consciousness
Author: John R. Searle
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780940322066

It has long been one of the most fundamental problems of philosophy, and it is now, John Searle writes, "the most important problem in the biological sciences": What is consciousness? Is my inner awareness of myself something separate from my body? In what began as a series of essays in The New York Review of Books, John Searle evaluates the positions on consciousness of such well-known scientists and philosophers as Francis Crick, Gerald Edelman, Roger Penrose, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, and Israel Rosenfield. He challenges claims that the mind works like a computer, and that brain functions can be reproduced by computer programs. With a sharp eye for confusion and contradiction, he points out which avenues of current research are most likely to come up with a biological examination of how conscious states are caused by the brain. Only when we understand how the brain works will we solve the mystery of consciousness, and only then will we begin to understand issues ranging from artificial intelligence to our very nature as human beings.