Science : Cosmology

Is our universe dying? Could there be other universes? In Parallel Worlds , world-renowned physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku — an author who “has a knack for bringing the most ethereal ideas down to earth” (Wall Street Journal )—takes readers on a fascinating tour of cosmology, M-theory, and its implications for the fate of the universe. more...

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Fully updated second edition for undergraduate students in astronomy and astrophysics. more...

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An accessible introduction to astronomy and general relativity, requiring only high-school level mathematics. more...

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Written by experts in the field, this textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduates of physics and astronomy provides a thorough introduction to general relativity. The most important results are derived completely, enabling you to develop the expertise in the mathematical techniques necessary to study general relativity. more...

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On the 10th anniversary of his death, brilliant astrophysisist and Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan's prescient exploration of the relationship between religion and science and his personal search for God. Carl Sagan is considered one of the greatest scientific minds of our time. His remarkable ability to explain science in terms easily understandable to the layman in bestselling books such as Cosmos, The Dragons of Eden, and The Demon-Haunted World won him a Pulitzer Prize and placed him firmly next to Isaac Asimov, Stephen Jay Gould, and Oliver Sachs as one of the most important and enduring communicators of science. In December 2006 it will be the tenth anniversary of Sagan's death, and Ann Druyan, his widow and longtime collaborator, will mark the occasion by releasing Sagan's famous "Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology," The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God. The chance to give the Gifford Lectures is an honor reserved for the most distinguished scientists and philosophers of our civilization. In 1985, on the grand occasion of the centennial of the lectureship, Carl Sagan was invited to give them. He took the opportunity to set down in detail his thoughts on the relationship between religion and science as well as to describe his own personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. The Varieties of Scientific Experience, edited, updated and with an introduction by Ann Druyan, is a bit like eavesdropping on a delightfully intimate conversation with the late great astronomer and astrophysicist. In his charmingly down-to-earth voice, Sagan easily discusses his views on topics ranging from manic depression and the possibly chemical nature of transcendance to creationism and so-called intelligent design to the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets to the likelihood of nuclear annihilation of our own to a new concept of science as "informed worship." Exhibiting a breadth of intell more...

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