Afterglow of Creation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Afterglow of Creation write by Marcus Chown. This book was released on 1996. Afterglow of Creation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the story of the cosmic background radiation, the "afterglow" of the Big Bang in which the Universe was born. Fifteen billion years after the event, the afterglow still permeates all of space, making it the oldest relic in creation and providing an imprint of the Universe as it was in its infancy. But the most astonishing thing about the afterglow of creation is that it wasn't discovered until 1965, and then only by accident - despite the fact that it had been predicted in 1948 and the technology to detect it existed during World War II. Chown brilliantly weaves a tale of the search for the origins of the Universe. Beginning in the 1920s and culminating with the flight of the COBE satellite and what it found, this book uncovers the secrets of the Universe.
Afterglow of Creation
Afterglow of Creation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Afterglow of Creation write by Marcus Chown. This book was released on 2010. Afterglow of Creation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fully revised and updated new edition of Marcus Chown's widely acclaimed first work of popular science.
Flashes of Creation
Flashes of Creation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flashes of Creation write by Paul Halpern. This book was released on 2021-08-17. Flashes of Creation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A respected physics professor and author breaks down the great debate over the Big Bang and the continuing quest to understand the fate of the universe. Today, the Big Bang is so entrenched in our understanding of the cosmos that to doubt it would seem crazy. But as Paul Halpern shows in Flashes of Creation, just decades ago its mere mention caused sparks to fly. At the center of the debate were Russian American physicist George Gamow and British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. Gamow insisted that a fiery explosion explained how the elements of the universe were created. Attacking the idea as half-baked, Hoyle countered that the universe was engaged in a never-ending process of creation. The battle was fierce. In the end, Gamow turned out to be right -- mostly -- and Hoyle, along with his many achievements, is remembered for giving the theory the silliest possible name: "The Big Bang." Halpern captures the brilliance of both thinkers and reminds us that even those proved wrong have much to teach us about boldness, imagination, and the universe itself.
Afterglow
Afterglow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Afterglow write by Eileen Myles. This book was released on 2018-02-01. Afterglow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Skinny's Book of the Year, 2018 In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly made an indelible impact on the writer's way of being. Over the course of sixteen years together, Myles was devoted to the pit bull and their linked quality of life. And starting from the emptiness following Rosie's death, Afterglow launches a playful and incisive investigation into the mostly mutually beneficial, sometimes reprehensible power dynamics between pet and pet-owner. At the same time, it reimagines Myles's experiences with alcoholism and recovery, intimacy and mourning, celebrity and politics, spirituality and family history, while joyously transcending the parameters of memoir. Moving from an imaginary talk show where Rosie is interviewed by Myles's childhood puppet, to a critical reenactment of the night Rosie mated with another pit bull; from shimmering poetic transcriptions of video footage taken during their walks, to Rosie's final enlightened narration from the afterlife, this totally singular text combines elements of science fiction, screenplay, monologue, and lucid memory to get to the heart of how and why we dedicate our existence to our dogs.
Parallel Worlds
Parallel Worlds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Parallel Worlds write by Michio Kaku. This book was released on 2006-02-14. Parallel Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The national bestselling author of The God Equation takes us on a thrilling journey to explore black holes and time machines, multidimensional space and the possibility that parallel universes may lay alongside our own. “A wonderful tour, with an expert guide.” —Brian Greene, New York Times bestselling author of The Elegant Universe Kaku skillfully guides us through the latest innovations in string theory and its latest iteration, M-theory, which posits that our universe may be just one in an endless multiverse, a singular bubble floating in a sea of infinite bubble universes. If M-theory is proven correct, we may perhaps finally find answer to the question, “What happened before the big bang?” This is an exciting and unforgettable introduction into the new cutting-edge theories of physics and cosmology from one of the pre-eminent voices in the field.
