The History of Everything meets Astrophysics for People in a Hurry in this humorous, accessible exploration of how meteorites have helped, not only, build the planet, but steered the evolution of life and human culture.

"The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist. What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly,...

Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Can we change the past? Are there gateways to parallel universes? All of us have pondered such questions, but there was a time when scientists dismissed these notions as outlandish speculations. Not any more. Today, they are the focus of the most intense scientific activity in recent memory. In Hyperspace, Michio Kaku offers the first book-length tour of the most exciting (and perhaps...

Here is Dr. Wernher von Braun's incredible story, from his early years in Germany, where he gave birth to modern rocketry, to his arrival in the United States and his launching of the first American satellite, the first man on the moon and other stunning space exploration feats. "Every page of Wernher von Braun's life is a monument to the drama of adventure. Few people have been fighting so hard and, indeed, very few have been subject to so much...

In the dramatic tradition of the best-selling Longitude, Parallax charts the historical path of observational astronomy's most daunting challenge: measuring the distance to a star. The greatest scientific minds applied themselves in vain to the problem across the millennia, beginning with the ancient Greeks. Not until the nineteenth century would three astronomers, armed with the best telescopes of the age, race to conquer this astronomical Everest-their...

An introduction to some of the lesser well-known but far more interesting stars in our galaxy.

This book advances a number of conjectures describing gravitational and inertial interactions and time dilation. A model is described that explains the gravitational and inertial interactions in a form that unlike geometric models depends on the exchange of particles. Time dilation has been defined as the decrease in the rate of flow of time in a frame moving with respect to an outside observer. In contrast to this definition, this book characterizes...

Dr. Louis Komzsik is an engineer and mathematician, a graduate of the Technical University and the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, both in Budapest Hungary. He immigrated to the US in 1981 and since then worked as engineer in the industry and taught mathematics at several California universities. He is the author of a handful of internationally known mathematical and engineering textbooks. In this easily readable volume, he wrote about the...

From its roots in classical mechanics and reliance on stability theory to the evolution of practical stabilization ideas, this volume covers environmental torques encountered in space; energy dissipation; motion equations for four archetypical systems; orientation parameters; illustrations of key concepts with on-orbit flight data; and typical engineering hardware. 1986 edition.

Egresado de la Universidad Michoacana como pasante en Ciencias Fisico-Matemáticas. Algo que marcó mi vida fue la impartición de la cátedra Fundamentos de la Ciencia en la Facultad de Filosofía en la misma Universidad, lo que me permitió la visualización de un universo diferente basado en el Materialismo Dialéctico. Con la aplicación de las tres leyes de la dialéctica se figura un universo discordante del universo del Big Bang, un universo...