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  • The Big Bang and the Fine-tuned Universe

    In a Nutshell, #1

    by Robert A. Alston ...
    Series Book 1 - In a Nutshell
    In easy-to-understand language, former NASA special projects engineer Robert Alston tackles cosmology's profoundest questions: Where did the universe come from, and how were its laws and constants finely tuned to allow for life? From Albert Einstein's biggest blunder to the perfect parameters that allow fragile life to persevere, this mini-book explores how astronomy and physics point to a cosmic ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell

    by Thomas Y. Lo, Paul K. Chien, Eric H. Anderson, Robert A. Alston, Robert P. Waltzer ...
    Are life and the universe a mindless accident—the blind outworking of cosmic, chemical, and biological evolution? That's the official story many of us were taught somewhere along the way. But what does the science actually say? Drawing on recent discoveries in astronomy, cosmology, chemistry, biology, and paleontology, Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell shows how the latest scientific ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Understanding the Building Blocks of Everything

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    Step out of your element with Science Comics: The Periodic Table of Elements, the latest volume of First Second's nonfiction graphic novel series!A book of fun chemistry experiments has fallen into the wrong hands. Only Mel can use her knowledge of the periodic table to put an end to a maniacal madman's evil schemes.The periodic table helps us quickly understand the 118 elements, those tiny ... Read more

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  • General Relativity 1: Newton vs Einstein

    by Robert Piccioni ...
    Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are the two major pillars of 20th century physics. These theories, launched within five years of one another, revolutionized our understanding of nature. They utterly dismantled the conceptual basis of Newtonian physics that had been the gold standard of science for over 200 years, and introduced radically new concepts that defy human intuition. These theories may ... Read more

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  • Losing the Nobel Prize

    A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor

    by Brian Keating ...
    **"Riveting."—ScienceA Forbes, Physics Today, Science News, and Science Friday Best Science Book Of 2018**Cosmologist and inventor of the BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) experiment, Brian Keating tells the inside story of the mesmerizing quest to unlock cosmology’s biggest mysteries and the human drama that ensued. We follow along on a personal journey of revelation ... Read more

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  • Quantum Mechanics 2: Reality, Uncertainty, & Schrödinger’s Cat

    by Robert Piccioni ...
    Series series Everyone's Guide Series
    This book is the second stage of our exploration of Quantum Mechanics in the Everyone’s Guide Series. Readers will benefit from a prior reading of Quantum Mechanics: 1 Particles & Waves. Here, we explore wave packets, the quantum description of particles. We will see how wave packets lead inexorably to the Uncertainty Principle, a hallmark of Quantum Mechanics. We examine the physical and ... Read more

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  • Special Relativity 1: Light, Time & What's Relative

    by Robert Piccioni ...
    Series series Everyone's Guide Series
    Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are the two major pillars of 20th century physics, which together revolutionized our understanding of nature, utterly dismantling Newtonian physics that had been the gold standard of science for over 200 years, and introducing radically new concepts that defy human intuition. These theories may represent the greatest upheaval in the history of science. This book ... Read more

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  • Megamassive Black Holes and the Steady State Universe

    by Toby Clark ...
    This treatise offers an alternative paradigm to the 'Big Bang' theory of the origin of the universe. It takes a fresh look at current cosmological knowledge, suggests the existence of and defines a Megamassive Black Hole. The existence of such bodies allows a rational argument for a steady state universe. This paradigm does not require a singularity at a particular moment, arguably the beginning ... Read more

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  • This Changes Everything

    by Colin Gillespie ...
    The physicist and author investigates the 20th century scientific revolution that changed our lives—and how it can go further—in this provocative essay.Much of the modern world we experience day to day has been profoundly transformed by a scientific revolution that began in the early twentieth century. But what has science done for us lately? In This Changes Everything, author and scientist Colin ... Read more

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  • Special Relativity 2: Spacetime & Space Travel

    by Robert Piccioni ...
    Series series Everyone's Guide Series
    This is the second book in the Everyone’s Guide Series devoted to Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity. Readers will benefit from a prior reading of Special Relativity 1: Light, Time, & What’s Relative. Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are the two major pillars of 20th century physics, which together revolutionized our understanding of nature, utterly dismantling Newtonian physics that had ... Read more

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  • Things That Go Bump in the Universe

    How Astronomers Decode Cosmic Chaos

    by C. Renée James ...
    Experience the drama of the explosive cosmos and the astonishing discoveries being made about the universe's wildest phenomena.The violent birth of the universe was only the first bang of a very bumpy ride. This unfathomably cacophonous beginning has spawned blasts, implosions, cosmic cannibalism, collisions, and countless other fleeting energetic events punctuating the cosmos. Although often ... Read more

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  • Stable State Universe Theory

    by Stephen Webb ...
    The theory behind the stable state universeThe first part of this theory is to believe in absolute zero, that is when there is no energy, no heat. Now in science we believe that we cannot reach absolute zero, because we have tried and found it impossible. Think of a thermometer it gets really close to absolute zero but never reaches it. There is a simple expiation for this, When you reach absolute ... Read more

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