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Free Download Cosmic Curiosities: Exploring the Mysteries of the Universe- No Telescope Required by Marisa Wake
English | November 26, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DP4BG4X6 | 45 pages | EPUB | 6.84 Mb
Exploring the Secrets of the Cosmos: A Journey Through Space and Time!

Free Download John William Klein, "The Mental Universe of the English Nonjurors"
English | ISBN: 1796015504 | 2019 | 446 pages | PDF | 25 MB
The Glorious Revolution of 1688, which pushed James II from the throne of England, was not glorious for everyone; in fact, for many, it was a great disaster. Those who had already taken an oath of allegiance to James II and "to his heirs and lawful successors" now pondered how they could take a second oath to William and Mary. Those who initially refused to swear the oath were called Nonjurors. In 1691, Archbishop Sancroft, eight bishops, and four hundred clergy of the Church of England, as well as a substantial number of scholars at Oxford and Cambridge, were deprived, removed from their offices and their license to practice revoked, for their refusal. This nonjuring community over time adopted hybridized ideas, long-embraced and called out by the times and circumstances. Five paradigms shaped the English Nonjurors’ mental universe: a radical obedience, a Cyprianist mentality, using printing presses in place of the pulpits they had lost, a hybridized view of time, and a global ecumenical perspective that linked them to the Orthodox East. These patterns operated synergistically to create an effective tool for the Nonjurors’ survival and success in their mission. The Nonjurors’ influence, out of proportion to their size, was due in large measure to this mentality; their unique circumstances prompted creative thinking, and they were superb in that endeavor. Those five ideas constituted the infrastructure of the Nonjurors’ world. This study helps us to see the early eighteenth century not only as a time of rapid change, but also as an era of persistent older religious mentalities adapted to new circumstances, and the Nonjurors were brilliant at this adaptation.

Free Download Julio a. Gonzalo Gonzalez, "The Intelligible Universe: An Overview Of The Last Thirteen Billion Years Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 9812794115 | 2008 | 368 pages | PDF | 35 MB
This interesting book reviews WMAP’s main results (2003) and discusses in detail how the accurate qualitative results for the "age" of the universe and the Hubble constant were anticipated in an article published five years before in Acta Cosmologica, Krakow. In the final chapter on "Cosmic Numbers", it is shown that, as a result of the coincidence at decoupling time between atom formation and matter/radiation equality, a reasonable cosmic justification for the mass ratio of protons and electrons is obtained. /remove

Free Download Steve Stewart-Williams, "The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve"
English | ISBN: 1108425046 | 2018 | 378 pages | EPUB | 1302 KB
The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our child-rearing patterns, our moral codes, our religions, our languages, and science? The book tackles these issues by drawing on ideas from two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory. The guiding assumption is that humans are animals, and that like all animals, we evolved to pass on our genes. At some point, however, we also evolved the capacity for culture – and from that moment, culture began evolving in its own right. This transformed us from a mere ape into an ape capable of reshaping the planet, travelling to other worlds, and understanding the vast universe of which we’re but a tiny, fleeting fragment.

Free Download John N Bahcall, "DARK MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 9812388400 | 2004 | 248 pages | PDF | 3 MB
If standard gravitational theory is correct, then most of the matter in the universe is in an unidentified form which does not emit enough light to have been detected by current instrumentation. This book is the second editon of the lectures given at the 4th Jerusalem Winter School for Theoretical Physics, with new material added. The lectures are devoted to the "missing matter" problem in the universe, the search to understand dark matter. The goal of this volume is to make current research work on unseen matter accessible to students without prior experience in this area and to provide insights for experts in related research fields. Due to the pedagogical nature of the original lectures and the intense discussions between the lecturers and the students, the written lectures included in this volume often contain techniques and explanations not found in more formal journal publications.

Free Download K S Krishna Swamy, "Dust in the Universe: Similarities And Differences"
English | 2005 | pages: 266 | ISBN: 9812562931 | PDF | 11,8 mb
The study of dust in the universe is an exciting area in current astronomy. Dust formed during an earlier epoch could be different from that formed at a later time, but the nature and composition of dust is not presently understood in its entirety. The comprehensive study presented in this book provides a much needed critical analysis of different types of dust in the universe. The information derived from presolar grains from comets, meteorites and interplanetary dust particles as well as the relevant laboratory studies are discussed. This should help in our goal of understanding the evolution of dust with cosmic time.

Free Download Quanta and Fields: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe by Sean Carroll
English | May 14, 2024 | ISBN: 0593186605 | 304 pages | PDF | 35 Mb
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Free Download Pluto: The Last Refuge of Traces in the Universe
English | 2024 | ASIN : B0DHF5WMKK | 134 Pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In the vast expanse of our Solar System, at the very edge of our celestial neighborhood, lies Pluto-a world both enigmatic and captivating. "Pluto: The Last Refuge of Traces in the Universe" is a journey into the heart of this distant realm, exploring its unique place in the cosmos and unraveling the mysteries that have fascinated astronomers and scientists for decades.

Free Download Once Upon a Universe: Not-so-Grimm tales of cosmology By Robert Gilmore
2003 | 225 Pages | ISBN: 1441930590 | PDF | 14 MB
"Once upon a time there was no Universe," began the Storyteller. . . ."First Snow White encounters one of the Little People, then one of the Even Smaller People, and finally one of the Truly Infinitesimal People. And no matter how diligently she searches, the only dwarves she can find are collapsed stars! Clearly, she’s not at home in her well-known Brothers Grimm fairy tale, but instead in a strange new landscape that features quantum behavior, the wavelike properties of particles, and the Uncertainty Principle. She (and we) must have entered, in short, one of the worlds created by Robert Gilmore, the physicist and fabulist who brought us the classic "Alice in Quantumland."Whether he’s recasting such classic tales as "Jack and the Quarkstalk," "Waking Beauty," or "Cinderenda and the Death of Stars," Gilmore shows us that there’s more than one way to shed light on the strange profundities of modern physics and cosmology, and what they have to tell us about the nature of time and space and motion. Black holes, dying stars, traveling backward through time to the Big Bang – they’re all here in accessible, instructive, and charmingly illustrated retellings.Robert Gilmore has published three previous books with Copernicus, "Alice in Quantumland," "Scrooge’s Cryptic Carol," and "The Wizard of Quarks." He is a Visiting Research Fellow, with a special focus on the public understanding of science, at Bristol University in England. He has also worked in particle physics at Brookhaven, Stanford, and CERN in Geneva.

Free Download Black Holes, Gravitational Radiation and the Universe: Essays in Honor of C.V. Vishveshwara By B. Carter (auth.), Bala R. Iyer, Biplab Bhawal (eds.)
1999 | 570 Pages | ISBN: 904815121X | PDF | 13 MB
Our esteemed colleague C. V. Vishveshwara, popularly known as Vishu, turned sixty on 6th March 1998. His colleagues and well wishers felt that it would be appropriate to celebrate the occasion by bringing out a volume in his honour. Those of us who have had the good fortune to know Vishu, know that he is unique, in a class by himself. Having been given the privilege to be the volume’s editors, we felt that we should attempt something different in this endeavour. Vishu is one of the well known relativists from India whose pioneer ing contributions to the studies of black holes is universally recognised. He was a student of Charles Misner. His Ph. D. thesis on the stability of the Schwarzschild black hole, coordinate invariant characterisation of the sta tionary limit and event horizon for Kerr black holes and subsequent seminal work on quasi-normal modes of black holes have passed on to become the starting points for detailed mathematical investigations on the nature of black holes. He later worked on other aspects related to black holes and compact objects. Many of these topics have matured over the last thirty years. New facets have also developed and become current areas of vigorous research interest. No longer are black holes, ultracompact objects or event horizons mere idealisations of mathematical physicists but concrete entities that astrophysicists detect, measure and look for. Astrophysical evidence is mounting up steadily for black holes.