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Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Cosmology & the universe
Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as
scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful
question." With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark
on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to
the present. Wilczek's groundbreaking work in quantum physics was
inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in
nature. This is the deep logic of the universe-and it is no
accident that it is also at the heart of what we find aesthetically
pleasing and inspiring. Wilczek is hardly alone among great
scientists in charting his course using beauty as his compass. As
he reveals in A Beautiful Question, this has been the heart of
scientific pursuit from Pythagoras and the ancient belief in the
music of the spheres to Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and
into the deep waters of twentieth-century physics. Wilczek brings
us right to the edge of knowledge today, where the core insights of
even the craziest quantum ideas apply principles we all understand.
The equations for atoms and light are almost the same ones that
govern musical instruments and sound; the subatomic particles that
are responsible for most of our mass are determined by simple
geometric symmetries. Gorgeously illustrated, A Beautiful Question
is a mind-shifting book that braids the age-old quest for beauty
and the age-old quest for truth into a thrilling synthesis. It is a
dazzling and important work from one of our best thinkers, whose
humor and infectious sense of wonder animate every page. Yes: The
world is a work of art, and its deepest truths are ones we already
feel, as if they were somehow written in our souls.
Your interest is bound to be held by the contents of this work and
the amazing characters, their achievements and the other topics
dealt with herein. A search team was formed to find any remains of
the Ark of Noah. They recorded on tape, the amazing account by an
elderly Armenian living in the USA who had climbed onto the
petrified hulk of the Holy Ark, when his uncle took him up Mount
Ararat as a boy. His recorded account was subjected to the P.S.E
Test (Lie Test)and it passed. Read the amazing account of the
incredible Count St Germain, philosopher, alchemist and linguist,
who could manufacture diamonds and transmute gold and was friend of
Louis XV. Voltaire said to him He is a man who knows everything and
never dies. He discovered the elixir of youth. Various nobles and
dignitaries met him over the decades and he always looked the same.
Read about N.D.E's (near death experiences) ghosts, spirits and the
paranormal, the Atlantis myth, the story of Noah and more. The
title given to this work will now be obvious to all.
This book is a simple, non-technical introduction to cosmology, explaining what it is and what cosmologists do. Peter Coles discusses the history of the subject, the development of the Big Bang theory, and more speculative modern issues like quantum cosmology, superstrings, and dark matter.
Illustrated with breathtaking images of the Solar System and of the
Universe around it, this book explores how the discoveries within
the Solar System and of exoplanets far beyond it come together to
help us understand the habitability of Earth, and how these
findings guide the search for exoplanets that could support life.
The author highlights how, within two decades of the discovery of
the first planets outside the Solar System in the 1990s, scientists
concluded that planets are so common that most stars are orbited by
them. The lives of exoplanets and their stars, as of our Solar
System and its Sun, are inextricably interwoven. Stars are the
seeds around which planets form, and they provide light and warmth
for as long as they shine. At the end of their lives, stars expel
massive amounts of newly forged elements into deep space, and that
ejected material is incorporated into subsequent generations of
planets. How do we learn about these distant worlds? What does the
exploration of other planets tell us about Earth? Can we find out
what the distant future may have in store for us? What do we know
about exoworlds and starbirth, and where do migrating hot Jupiters,
polluted white dwarfs, and free-roaming nomad planets fit in? And
what does all that have to do with the habitability of Earth, the
possibility of finding extraterrestrial life, and the operation of
the globe-spanning network of the sciences?
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