A Perfect Vacuum

A Perfect Vacuum
Author: Stanisław Lem
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780810117334
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"In a perfect vacuum, Stanislaw Lem presents a collection of book reviews of nonexistent works of literature - works that, in many cases, could not possibly be written. Embracing postmodernism's "games for games' sake" ethos, Lem joins the contest with hilarious and grotesque results." "Most of the "reviews" target the postmodern infatuation with antinarratives by lampooning their self-indulgence and exploiting their mannerisms. Lem exposes the limits of postmodern fiction, showing how its studious self-consciousness frequently conceals intellectual paucity. Beginning with a review of his own book, Lem moves on to tackle (or create pastiches of) the French new novel, James Joyce, pornography, authorless writing, and Dostoevsky, while at the same time ranging across scientific topics, from cosmology to the pervasiveness of computers." --Book Jacket.

Cosmogony

Cosmogony
Author: Lucy Ives
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1593765991
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An energetic, witty collection of stories where the supernatural meets the anomalies of everyday life--deception, infidelity, lost cats, cute memes, amateur pornography, and more. There are analogies between being female and being left-handed, I think, or being an animal. A woman answers a Craigslist ad (to write erotic diaries for money). A woman walks onto a tennis court (from her home at the bottom of the ocean). A woman goes to the supermarket and meets a friend's husband (who happens to be an immortal demon). A woman goes for a run (and accidentally time travels). Cosmogony takes accounts of so-called normal life and mines them for inconsistencies, deceptions, and delights. Incorporating a virtuosic range of styles and genres (Wikipedia entry, phone call, physics equation, encounters with the supernatural), these stories reveal how the narratives we tell ourselves and believe are inevitably constructed, offering a glimpse of the structures that underlie and apparently determine human existence.

God and the New Cosmology

God and the New Cosmology
Author: Michael Anthony Corey
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1993
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780847678020
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'Given the excellent historical context in which Corey frames his case and the rational manner in which he closes off the loopholes, the stage is set for paradigm shift in the secular area. I highly recommend this book.'-Hugh Ross, Astronomer

Worship and the New Cosmology

Worship and the New Cosmology
Author: Catherine Vincie
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2014-08-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0814682979
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What is the Christian response to developments in the hard sciences? What do discoveries at the macro and micro levels have to say about Christian theology, about a theology of God, Christology, pneumatology, and creation? How do the developments in systematic theology that do take the advances in cosmology and the New Sciences seriously come to bear on our worship life?These are the questions that are addressed in this text. It is an initial effort to bring cosmology and the New Sciences into dialogue with developments in systematic and sacramental theology. This book also suggests some ways in which these developments might appear in our worship. Overall, the author is concerned to reduce the cognitive dissonance between our scientifically informed everyday lives and our life of faith.

The Russell Cosmogony; A New Concept of Light, Matter, and Energy

The Russell Cosmogony; A New Concept of Light, Matter, and Energy
Author: Walter Russell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-09-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781684228348
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2023 Reprint of the 1953 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "The Russell Cosmogony with its new concepts of light, matter, energy, electricity and magnetism is a simple yet complete, consistent and workable cosmogony/cosmology which will enable future scientists to visualize the Universe as a Unified Whole, and will open the door to the New Age of Transmutation." -Walter Russell's (An Open Letter to the World of Science) Some of the concepts touched upon: A New Concept of the Universe; The Undivided Light; The Divided Light; This Electric Universe of Simulated Idea; Coulomb Law; The Electric Universe of Simulated Energy; The Duality of Electric Effect; Thought-Wave Universe; Polarity Periodicity; Magnetic Lines of Force; Law of Conservation of Energy; Thermodynamic Misconception; Inadequacy of Newton's Three Laws; Fallacy of Newton's Mathematics; Two Unknown Facts of Nature; Inadequacy of Kepler's First Law; The Quantum Theory; Singly Charged Particles; Science Must Revolutionize Concept of Matter; The New Concept of Matter; Mystery of Magnetic Poles; Illusion of Three Dimensions; The Earth is Not a Magnet; Cathodes and Anodes; No Separate Particles; Curvature is Also Polarized; Conditions of Matter; Vibrating Matter; Growth & Decay; Octave Wave Cycle; Gyroscope Wheel; Expanding Systems; Oblating Spheres; Unbalanced Systems Wobble; Gravitation & Radiation; Nine-Octave Periodic Table of the Elements; Industry's Creating Processes; Secret of Man's Power; New Power for Science; Age of Transmutation.