We Have No Idea

We Have No Idea
Author: Jorge Cham
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0735211523

Prepare to learn everything we still don’t know about our strange and mysterious universe Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore —there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to explore everything we don't know about the universe: the enormous holes in our knowledge of the cosmos. Armed with their popular infographics, cartoons, and unusually entertaining and lucid explanations of science, they give us the best answers currently available for a lot of questions that are still perplexing scientists, including: * Why does the universe have a speed limit? * Why aren't we all made of antimatter? * What (or who) is attacking Earth with tiny, superfast particles? * What is dark matter, and why does it keep ignoring us? It turns out the universe is full of weird things that don't make any sense. But Cham and Whiteson make a compelling case that the questions we can't answer are as interesting as the ones we can. This fully illustrated introduction to the biggest mysteries in physics also helpfully demystifies many complicated things we do know about, from quarks and neutrinos to gravitational waves and exploding black holes. With equal doses of humor and delight, Cham and Whiteson invite us to see the universe as a possibly boundless expanse of uncharted territory that's still ours to explore.

The Unknown Planet

The Unknown Planet
Author: Jean Ure
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1992
Genre:
ISBN: 9780744531022

The Spaceship Sea Queen is part of a fleet searching for a new world. On board are 50 children. Their own planet, Aqua, is dying and can no longer support them. Then the spaceship crashlands on an unknown planet, which young readers, however, may find strangely familiar.

Our Unknown Planet

Our Unknown Planet
Author: United Nations Review (New York, 1954- )
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 1957
Genre: International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958
ISBN:

Uranus and Neptune

Uranus and Neptune
Author: Ron Miller
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2003-08-01
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 076133775X

Two of the most mysterious planets in our solar system are the cold, beautiful blue worlds of Uranus and Neptune. They lie so far from the Sun that they appear only as small dots in even the largest telescopes. Unknown to ancient astronomers, one was discovered by accident and the other as the result of an interplanetary detective story, and an intense international competition. Modern spacecraft have revealed them to be among the most fascinating of all the planets, from the frigid blue hurricanes that rage through Neptune’s atmosphere to some of the most unusual moons in the solar system.

Cassandra and the Unknown World

Cassandra and the Unknown World
Author: Petri Luosto
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2016-09-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9523305743

A seed ship arrived to the planet Eden 20 years ago landing the planet. The robots from that ship then built a colony in there. The spaceship itself carried both egg cells and sperm with it. The egg cells were fertilized. Now, 20 years ago the first class on humans inside that spaceship have reached the age of 16 years. They were brought up and educated by the robots. Now they will leave the spaceship to explore a strange new world.

Criticism and the History of Science

Criticism and the History of Science
Author: Andersson
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004450572

Criticism and the History of Science deals with Thomas Kuhn's, Imre Lakatos's and Paul Feyerabend's criticism of Karl Popper's falsificationist conception of science. It argues that this criticism is based on two important methodological problems: the problem that observations and tests statements are fallible and impregnated with theory, and the problem of how to test complex theoretical systems. In order to solve these problems it shows how problematic test statements can be criticised and whole theoretical systems falsified. In this way the falsificationist conception of science is developed and defended in a way making a deeper understanding of science and its history possible.

The Unknown Universe

The Unknown Universe
Author: Stuart Clark
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2016-07-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1681771934

A groundbreaking guide to the universe and how our latest deep-space discoveries are forcing us to revisit what we know—and what we don't. On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion years of time, it is physically impossible to make a better map: we will never see the early universe in more detail. On the one hand, such a view is the apotheosis of modern cosmology, on the other, it threatens to undermine almost everything we hold cosmologically sacrosanct. The map contains anomalies that challenge our understanding of the universe. It will force us to revisit what is known and what is unknown, to construct a new model of our universe. This is the first book to address what will be an epoch-defining scientific paradigm shift. Stuart Clark will ask if Newton's famous laws of gravity need to be rewritten; if dark matter and dark energy are just celestial phantoms? Can we ever know what happened before the Big Bang? What’s at the bottom of a black hole? Are there universes beyond our own? Does time exist? Are the once immutable laws of physics changing?

Babylon to Voyager and Beyond

Babylon to Voyager and Beyond
Author: David Leverington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2003-05-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521808408

The story of planetary research from ancient astronomers to more recent spacecraft missions.