Download or read book Reflections on a Surprising Universe written by Richard Conrad Dieter and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on a Surprising Universe takes the reader beyond the headlines of the latest scientific breakthroughs, translating complicated topics into an understandable narrative. It covers a wide array of scientific developments in clear and concise language sharing a sense of wonder felt by the author about the universe we find ourselves in. The book covers such developments as the size and expansion of the universe, black holes, gravitational waves, the relativity of spacetime, the multiverse, exoplanets and the possibility of extraterrestrial life, DNA, fundamental particles, quantum mechanics and quantum computers, all in an accessible narrative. Do you feel a sense of excitement and awe in learning about both the vastness and intricacies of the world around you? Then let Richard Dieter guide you through the unique synthesis of recent scientific discoveries and what they reveal about us.
Download or read book A Many colored Glass written by Freeman J. Dyson and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emphasis of this book with philosophical essays is on the myriad ways in which the universe presents itself to us - and how, as observers and participants in its processes, we respond to it. The book begins with a consideration of the practical and political questions surrounding biotechnology. As it seeks how best to explain the place of life in the universe, the book then moves from ethical to purely scientific issues. The last part concludes with an attempt to understand the implications of biology for philosophy and religion. The pieces in this book touch on numerous disciplines, from astronomy and ecology to neurology and theology.
Download or read book Broca s Brain written by Carl Sagan and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating book on the joys of discovering how the world works, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Cosmos and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors. “Magnificent . . . Delightful . . . A masterpiece. A message of tremendous hope for humanity . . . While ever conscious that human folly can terminate man’s march into the future, Sagan nonetheless paints for us a mind-boggling future: intelligent robots, the discovery of extraterrestrial life and its consequences, and above all the challenge and pursuit of the mystery of the universe.”—Chicago Tribune “Go out and buy this book, because Carl Sagan is not only one of the world’s most respected scientists, he’s a great writer. . . . I can give a book no greater accolade than to say I’m planning on reading it again. And again. And again.”—The Miami Herald “The brilliant astronomer . . . is persuasive, provocative and readable.”—United Press International “Closely reasoned, impeccably researched, gently humorous, utterly devastating.”—The Washington Post
Download or read book The Unfolding Universe written by Harold McAlister and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karel Hujer was an astronomer, humanist, world traveler, historian of science, political essayist, lecturer, and a deeply spiritual man who urged his students over four decades to probe the universe with an emphasis on searching for their place in it. Prevented from returning to his home country of Czechoslovakia after the Munich Pact was signed in late 1938, Karel stayed in the US at age 36 while on a long trip to the Americas. After the War, he settled in Chattanooga where he retired as Guerry Professor Emeritus of Astronomy from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 1976. His dear wife Harriet survived him by less than two years. Over the decades during which I knew the Hujers, there was occasional mention of his book, a work that seemed always in progress. After finding essentially complete manuscripts for all but one of the mysterious book's chapters among Karel's papers in 2015, I was determined to bring his long-delayed book to light. Here it is - the lost book of Karel Hujer.The Unfolding Universe describes how humans used their senses over many centuries to create an understanding of the world surrounding them, including all they could see with their eyes on the canopy of the sky. Arguing that the history of astronomy is a story of one delusion by the senses after another, Karel takes the reader on the journey of achieving true cosmic consciousness through the spiritual practices of Hinduism.Although mostly written in the 1940s and 50s, this is the timeless story of the human attempt to resolve the mystery of our existence. --- Hal McAlister (Harold A. McAlister is Regents' Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and founder & Director Emeritus of the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy at Georgia State University, which operates the world's highest resolution telescope - the CHARA Array - on Mount Wilson, CA. From 2002 to 2014 he also served as Director of the historic Mount Wilson Observatory. He first met Karel & Harriet Hujer nearly 60 years ago, and they would have an enormous impact on his life and his career in astronomy. He would inherit Dr. Hujer's books, papers, and photographs from which this this book results.)
Download or read book Beyond the Rainbow written by Ana Campos and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the origin of the Universe? How is the material world built? What is this life blooming in the cosmos? What is the reason for being? This book addresses the major issues of Metaphysics from a holistic perspective, trying to harmonize the different world views that arise from the different currents of thought. The book begins by reviewing the exciting body of knowledge derived from Physics, Cosmology and Biology among other branches of Science. It first examines this Universe that harbors the Life, focusing on the pillars that underpin its fabric: the space, the time and the matter. Then, it goes on exploring the wonders of life, with its complexity and amazing capabilities to think, and to feel. Reflecting on the ontological meaning and the role of the different ingredients that make up reality, the book slides into that place where the border between objectivity and subjectivity is blurred. At that point, the story takes a twist to venture into the domains of the Perennial Philosophy, meeting place of the great spiritual traditions whose teachers invite to seek for the answers by looking inwards, through the meditative introspection.
Download or read book Save the World Within You Trilogy written by Arcady Petrov and published by Rare Ware Medienverlag (Publishers). This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient times it was assumed that the world stands on three elephants, or three columns, according to the Jewish Kabbalah. You can say that the world stands on whales, elephants or pillars - the essence will not change. Anyway, it isn't about animals but about the right and left hemispheres of the brain, the spinal cord and whether they are capable of harmonious functioning on the basis of CONSCIOUSNESS, meaning divine consciousness, of course. The left hemisphere manifests its function of logic through the scientific worldview. The right hemisphere displays its function through an intuitive perception of truth and through religious perception of the world. At first glance, they appear to be irreconcilable opposites. But if you look closely, you will see that the nonsense of atheistic views and the shocking demands for "sacrifice of the mind" are just two extreme manifestations of the same natural life source. And while the left brain hemisphere "hits against" its own mirror reflection, unable to overcome the BOUNDARY separating the worlds, it will continue to repeat the same old statements about atheism, physical foundations of the world, speed that cannot exceed the speed of light, and space and time as the medium of our existence, not even understanding that they are secondary to the CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE CREATOR, Who has created all this in the world and in relation to WHOM they are correlated, as consequence with cause.
Download or read book The Gaze from Above written by Barbara Baert and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When gazing into the vast expanse of 'the universe', humankind experiences the universal desire to fathom the mystery of its creation. We utilize our unique ability to express ourselves through artistic means to make this mystery tangible, transmuting the secrets of the cosmos into stunning objects and ingenious symbols. Through a deep engagement with recent iconological methods the author travels up and down a methodological Jacob's ladder, between the artist's gazes from the earth to the sky. The reader is treated to studies on a wide variety of objects and mediums, ranging from the embroidery of Girone, the Hereford mappa mundi to the genesis cycle in the Saint Mark's Basilica in Venice. The author reconsiders the iconic gaze of van Eyck's lamb and enters Danaë's uncanny, voyeuristic space in the painting by Jan Gossaert. Meanwhile, she allows other thinkers to explore these questions alongside her. She turns to Erwin Panofsky, who writes about his fascination with Galileo Galilei's telescope, and finally Lars von Trier and his movie Melancholia gets to call it Schluss. All the artworks in this captivating book contribute to unravel the largest mystery that surrounds us: the cosmos. The image blooms into the countenance of that majestic, astonishing black pupil above us. Or as Aby Warburg once wrote: "Contemplation of the sky is the grace and the curse of humanity."
Download or read book The Cosmic Laws of Cosmic Awareness written by Paul Shockley and published by . This book was released on 2009-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents inspiring insights that make clear how universal regularities work in our lives. These concise, spiritual reflections emphasize that we are part of a universe which in essence is one living and creating awareness. Being connected with this awareness enables us to develop inner wisdom and to experience love and respect for every living thing. Never before have this many universal laws been brought together in one book. Innumerable subjects are placed in the inspiring light of a new age, in a surprisingly clear and concrete way. This book meets a growing need of accurate phrasing of higher laws.
Download or read book Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World written by Daniel Defoe and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World, first published in 1720 and considered a sequel to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of essays written in the voice of the Crusoe character. Expressing Defoe’s thoughts about many moral questions of the day, the narrator takes up isolation, poverty, religious liberty, and epistemology. Defoe also used this volume to revive his interest in poetry, not the satiric poetry of the early eighteenth century, but the more inspirational verse that appeared in some of his later works. Serious Reflections also includes an imaginative flight in which Crusoe wanders among the planets, a return to the moon voyage impulse of Defoe’s 1705 work The Consolidator. Illuminating the ideas and philosophy of this most influential of English novelists, it is invaluable for any student of the period.
Download or read book Youth Reflection of Universe written by Pankaj Jagannath Jayswal and published by Orangebooks Publication. This book was released on 2020-05-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about youth, have strong potential to success materially as well as spiritually, facing challenges, obstacles, as a parent, teacher and society, how it needs to be handled, is the main theme of this book.
Download or read book Probable Impossibilities written by Alan Lightman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between. Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom The Washington Post has called “the poet laureate of science writers,” explores these questions and more—from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang. Probable Impossibilities is a deeply engaged consideration of what we know of the universe, of life and the mind, and of things vastly larger and smaller than ourselves.
Download or read book Dark Reflections written by Val Staples and published by Mv Creations. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plot to take over Grayskull goes wrong as Man-at-Arms is taken from Eternia. Soon after, the doorway to destruction is opened. Witness a surprise ending that will have fans talking for months! Includes a cover gallery and exclusive sketch material.
Download or read book The Beginning of Infinity written by David Deutsch and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Science has never had an advocate quite like David Deutsch ... A computational physicist on a par with his touchstones Alan Turing and Richard Feynman, and a philosopher in the line of his greatest hero, Karl Popper. His arguments are so clear that to read him is to experience the thrill of the highest level of discourse available on this planet and to understand it' Peter Forbes, Independent In our search for truth, how far have we advanced? This uniquely human quest for good explanations has driven amazing improvements in everything from scientific understanding and technology to politics, moral values and human welfare. But will progress end, either in catastrophe or completion - or will it continue infinitely? In this profound and seminal book, David Deutsch explores the furthest reaches of our current understanding, taking in the Infinity Hotel, supernovae and the nature of optimism, to instill in all of us a wonder at what we have achieved - and the fact that this is only the beginning of humanity's infinite possibility. 'This is Deutsch at his most ambitious, seeking to understand the implications of our scientific explanations of the world ... I enthusiastically recommend this rich, wide-ranging and elegantly written exposition of the unique insights of one of our most original intellectuals' Michael Berry, Times Higher Education Supplement 'Bold ... profound ... provocative and persuasive' Economist 'David Deutsch may well go down in history as one of the great scientists of our age' Scotsman
Download or read book The Varieties of Scientific Experience written by Carl Sagan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ann Druyan has unearthed a treasure. It is a treasure of reason, compassion, and scientific awe. It should be the next book you read.” —Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith “A stunningly valuable legacy left to all of us by a great human being. I miss him so.” —Kurt Vonnegut Carl Sagan's prophetic vision of the tragic resurgence of fundamentalism and the hope-filled potential of the next great development in human spirituality The late great astronomer and astrophysicist describes his personal search to understand the nature of the sacred in the vastness of the cosmos. Exhibiting a breadth of intellect nothing short of astounding, Sagan presents his views on a wide range of topics, including the likelihood of intelligent life on other planets, creationism and so-called intelligent design, and a new concept of science as "informed worship." Originally presented at the centennial celebration of the famous Gifford Lectures in Scotland in 1985 but never published, this book offers a unique encounter with one of the most remarkable minds of the twentieth century.
Download or read book First You Build a Cloud written by K. C. Cole and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clearly written and compelling look at physics and physicists offers “thousands of new ways to see our daily world more richly” (Douglas Hofstadter, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach). For many of us, physics has always been a thing of mystery and complexity. K. C. Cole, an award-winning science writer, specializes in making its wonders accessible to the everyday reader. This book uses lively prose, metaphors, and anecdotes to allow us to comprehend the nuances of physics: gravity and light, color and shape, quarks and quasars, particles and stars, force and strength. It also shows us how the physical world is so deeply intertwined with the ways we think about culture, poetry, and philosophy, and explores the workings of such legendary scientific minds as Richard Feynman, Victor Weisskopf, brothers Frank Oppenheimer and J. Robert Oppenheimer, Philip Morrison, Vera Kistiakowsky, and Stephen Jay Gould. “An exemplary science writer . . . For readers without scientific background, Cole gracefully introduces relativity, quantum theory, optics, astrophysics, and other significant disciplines, never getting bogged down in unnecessary explanation. Thus, you may not learn all about thermodynamics from reading her chapter on it, but you will learn enough to think seriously about the entropy in your own life. Cole sprinkles her text with comments from famous scientists—‘Space is blue, and birds fly in it,’ said Heisenberg, and Faraday said, ‘Nothing is too wonderful to be true’—that are not only delightful in themselves but perfectly suited to her own text. No review of Cole’s book could be too wonderful to be true.” —Booklist
Download or read book One Universe written by Charles Tsun-Chu Liu and published by Joseph Henry Press. This book was released on 1999-12-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new window opens onto the cosmos... Almost every day we are challenged by new information from the outermost reaches of space. Using straightforward language, One Universe explores the physical principles that govern the workings of our own world so that we can appreciate how they operate in the cosmos around us. Bands of color in a sunlit crystal and the spectrum of starlight in giant telescopes, the arc of a hard-hit baseball and the orbit of the moon, traffic patterns on a freeway and the spiral arms in a galaxy full of stars--they're all tied together in grand and simple ways. We can understand the vast cosmos in which we live by exploring three basic concepts: motion, matter, and energy. With these as a starting point, One Universe shows how the physical principles that operate in our kitchens and backyards are actually down-to-Earth versions of cosmic processes. The book then takes us to the limits of our knowledge, asking the ultimate questions about the origins and existence of life as we know it and where the universe came from--and where it is going. Glorious photographs--many seen for the first time in these pages--and original illustrations expand and enrich our understanding. Evocative and clearly written, One Universe explains complex ideas in ways that every reader can grasp and enjoy. This book captures the grandeur of the heavens while making us feel at home in the cosmos. Above all, it helps us realize that galaxies, stars, planets, and we ourselves all belong to One Universe.
Download or read book Figuring written by Maria Popova and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries—beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine biologist and author Rachel Carson, who catalyzed the environmental movement. Stretching between these figures is a cast of artists, writers, and scientists—mostly women, mostly queer—whose public contribution have risen out of their unclassifiable and often heartbreaking private relationships to change the way we understand, experience, and appreciate the universe. Among them are the astronomer Maria Mitchell, who paved the way for women in science; the sculptor Harriet Hosmer, who did the same in art; the journalist and literary critic Margaret Fuller, who sparked the feminist movement; and the poet Emily Dickinson. Emanating from these lives are larger questions about the measure of a good life and what it means to leave a lasting mark of betterment on an imperfect world: Are achievement and acclaim enough for happiness? Is genius? Is love? Weaving through the narrative is a set of peripheral figures—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman—and a tapestry of themes spanning music, feminism, the history of science, the rise and decline of religion, and how the intersection of astronomy, poetry, and Transcendentalist philosophy fomented the environmental movement.
