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| Author | : John Gribbin |
| Publisher | : Icon Books |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 2022-10-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 178578918X |
Time travel is a familiar theme of science fiction, but is it really possible? Surprisingly, time travel is not forbidden by the laws of physics - and John Gribbin argues that if it is not impossible then it must be possible. Gribbin brilliantly illustrates the possibilities of time travel by comparing familiar themes from science fiction with their real-world scientific counterparts, including Einstein's theories of relativity, black holes, quantum physics, and the multiverse, illuminated by examples from the fictional tales of Robert Heinlein, Larry Niven, Carl Sagan and others. The result is an entertaining guide to some deep mysteries of the Universe which may leave you wondering whether time actually passes at all, and if it does, whether we are moving forwards or backwards. A must-read for science fiction fans and anyone intrigued by deep science.
| Author | : Sarah Susanka |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2007-05-01 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 158836612X |
Have you ever found yourself asking, “Is this all there is to life?” Or wondering if this bigger life you have created is actually a better life? And do you wonder how it all got so out of control? In her groundbreaking bestseller The Not So Big House, architect Sarah Susanka showed us a new way to inhabit our houses by creating homes that were better–not bigger. Now, in The Not So Big Life, Susanka takes her revolutionary philosophy to another dimension by showing us a new way to inhabit our lives. Most of us have lives that are as cluttered with unwanted obligations as our attics are cluttered with things. The bigger-is-better idea that triggered the explosion of McMansions has spilled over to give us McLives. For many of us, our ability to find the time to do what we want to do has come to a grinding halt. Now we barely have time to take a breath before making the next call on our cell phone, while at the same time messaging someone else on our Blackberry. Our schedules are chaotic and overcommitted, leaving us so stressed that we are numb, yet we wonder why we cannot fall asleep at night. In The Not So Big Life, Susanka shows us that it is possible to take our finger off the fast-forward button, and to our surprise we find how effortless and rewarding this change can be. We do not have to lead a monastic life or give up the things we love. In fact, the real joy of leading a not so big life is discovering that the life we love has been there the entire time. Through simple exercises and inspiring stories, Susanka shows us that all we need to do is make small shifts in our day–subtle movements that open our minds as if we were finally opening the windows to let in fresh air. The Not So Big Life reveals that form and function serve not only architectural aims but life goals as well. Just as we can tear down interior walls to reveal space, we can tear down our fears and assumptions to open up new possibilities. The result is that we quickly discover we have all the space and time we need for the things in our lives that really matter. But perhaps the greatest reward is the discovery that small changes can yield enormous results. In her elegant, clear style, Susanka convinces us that less truly is more–much more.
| Author | : Dwayne Smith |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2014-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1476730539 |
"A thriller about a Black society with a secret"--
| Author | : John Gribbin |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 2019-10-08 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0262043238 |
“An elegant and accessible” investigation of quantum mechanics for non-specialists—“highly recommended” for students of the sciences, sci-fi fans, and anyone interested in the strange world of quantum physics (Forbes) Rules of the quantum world seem to say that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time and a particle can be in two places at once. And that particle is also a wave; everything in the quantum world can described in terms of waves—or entirely in terms of particles. These interpretations were all established by the end of the 1920s, by Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and others. But no one has yet come up with a common sense explanation of what is going on. In this concise and engaging book, astrophysicist John Gribbin offers an overview of six of the leading interpretations of quantum mechanics. Gribbin calls his account “agnostic,” explaining that none of these interpretations is any better—or any worse—than any of the others. Gribbin presents the Copenhagen Interpretation, promoted by Niels Bohr and named by Heisenberg; the Pilot-Wave Interpretation, developed by Louis de Broglie; the Many Worlds Interpretation (termed “excess baggage” by Gribbin); the Decoherence Interpretation (“incoherent”); the Ensemble “Non-Interpretation”; and the Timeless Transactional Interpretation (which theorized waves going both forward and backward in time). All of these interpretations are crazy, Gribbin warns, and some are more crazy than others—but in the quantum world, being more crazy does not necessarily mean more wrong.
| Author | : Jay Revell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 112 |
| Release | : 2020-06 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781081385941 |
In his debut book, golf writer Jay Revell takes readers for a walk through his personal experiences, recollections, and theories from a lifetime spent in the sport. Designed to be read in small doses, The Nine Virtues of Golf features an engaging mix of essays, poems, short stories, and other musings, making it the perfect companion for golf trips, beach days, and bedside reading. Through his stories, Revell has built a global following of golfing diehards and cataloged his love affair with the game. In The Nine Virtues of Golf, Revell brings those tales together in an easily digestible read that's perfectly suited for anyone with a passion for golf.
| Author | : Patricia Fara |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2021-02-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0198841027 |
The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade. Isaac Newton is celebrated throughout the world as a great scientific genius who conceived the theory of gravity. But in his early fifties, he abandoned his life as a reclusive university scholar to spend three decades in London, a long period of metropolitan activity that is often overlooked. Enmeshed in Enlightenment politics and social affairs, Newton participated in the linked spheres of early science and imperialist capitalism. Instead of the quiet cloisters and dark libraries of Cambridge's all-male world, he now moved in fashionable London society, which was characterized by patronage relationships, sexual intrigues and ruthless ambition. Knighted by Queen Anne, and a close ally of influential Whig politicians, Newton occupied a powerful position as President of London's Royal Society. He also became Master of the Mint, responsible for the nation's money at a time of financial crisis, and himself making and losing small fortunes on the stock market. A major investor in the East India Company, Newton benefited from the global trading networks that relied on selling African captives to wealthy plantation owners in the Americas, and was responsible for monitoring the import of African gold to be melted down for English guineas. Patricia Fara reveals Newton's life as a cosmopolitan gentleman by focussing on a Hogarth painting of an elite Hanoverian drawing room. Gazing down from the mantelpiece, a bust of Newton looms over an aristocratic audience watching their children perform a play about European colonialism and the search for gold. Packed with Newtonian imagery, this conversation piece depicts the privileged, exploitative life in which this eminent Enlightenment figure engaged, an uncomfortable side of Newton's life with which we are much less familiar.
| Author | : Jim Kaat |
| Publisher | : Triumph Books |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2012-10-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1623681618 |
He pitched to Ted Williams and Tony Gwynn. His career spanned three commissioners, four decades and five times in six cities. Before he becomes elected to the baseball Hall of Fame, learn about the fascinating career of one of the most unheralded hurlers.
| Author | : John Gribbin |
| Publisher | : Icon Books |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2023-10-26 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1837731128 |
Obvious questions do not always have obvious answers. John Gribbin is known for giving us simple explanations of big concepts in science. But there is another way to probe the mysteries of the Universe and our place in it. Faced with persistent enquiries from his grandchildren, Gribbin realised that simple questions, such as 'Why is the sky blue?', sometimes require big answers, understandable in straightforward language. In answering those simple questions, he discovered that he was telling the story of our place in the Universe, from the Big Bang to the evolutionary reasons why men are, on average, bigger than women. The questions may be obvious, but the answers are sometimes surprising and highlight one of the main joys of science - discovering the unexpected. In this book, Gribbin invites the reader to join him on this voyage of discovery, where you may think you already know the answers but should be prepared to be surprised - or at least, tantalised by the truth.
| Author | : Dr. Amarnath Reddy |
| Publisher | : Ashok Yakkaldevi |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2021-11-30 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1794836764 |
Contemplate the last snapshots of Gary and Mary Jane Chauncey, a couple totally committed to their eleven-year-old girl Andrea, who was bound to a wheelchair by cerebral paralysis. The Chauncey family was travelers on an Amtrak train that collided with a stream after a canal boat hit and debilitated a railroad span in Louisiana's narrows country. Thinking first about their little girl, the couple made an honest effort to save Andrea as water raced into the sinking train; some way or another they figured out how to push Andrea through a window to rescuers. Then, at that point, as the vehicle sank underneath the water, they perished. Andrea's story, of guardians whose last gallant demonstration is to guarantee their youngster's endurance, catches a snapshot of practically mythic mental fortitude. Without uncertainty such episodes of parental penance for their offspring have been rehashed on many occasions in mankind's set of experiences and ancient times, and incalculable more in the bigger course of development of our species.2 Seen according to the point of view of transformative researcher, such parental benevolence is in the assistance of "conceptive achievement" in giving one's qualities to people in the future. In any case, according to the viewpoint of a parent settling on a frantic choice in a snapshot of emergency, it is tied in with nothing other than adoration.
| Author | : Andrew May |
| Publisher | : Icon Books |
| Total Pages | : 116 |
| Release | : 2019-02-07 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1785784943 |
As end-of-the-world scenarios go, an apocalyptic collision with an asteroid or comet is the new kid on the block, gaining respectability only in the last decade of the 20th century with the realisation that the dinosaurs had been wiped out by just such an impact. Now the science community is making up for lost time, with worldwide efforts to track the thousands of potentially hazardous near-Earth objects, and plans for high-tech hardware that could deflect an incoming object from a collision course – a procedure depicted, with little regard for scientific accuracy, in several Hollywood movies. Astrophysicist and science writer Andrew May disentangles fact from fiction in this fast-moving and entertaining account, covering the nature and history of comets and asteroids, the reason why some orbits are more hazardous than others, the devastating local and global effects that an impact event would produce, and – more optimistically – the way future space missions could avert a catastrophe.
