Libros a Descargar Gratis

Explicar el mundo

Autor: Steven Weinberg

Número de Páginas: 415

Un impresionante relato de lo difícil que fue descubrir los objetivos y métodos de la ciencia moderna, y el impacto que ese descubrimiento tuvo en el conocimiento y desarrollo humanos. Por el premio Nobel de Física Steven Weinberg. «El libro de ciencia más relevante de los últimos diez años. Uno de los grandes físicos teóricos contemporáneos narra su visión del origen y laevolución de nuestra forma de comprender el mundo. Una invitación a pensar como solo han pensado los grandes.» Javier Sampedro En esta historia de la ciencia, tan irreverente como ambiciosa, Steven Weinberg nos conduce a través de los siglos desde la antigua Mileto hasta el Bagdad medieval y Oxford, desde la Academia de Platón y el Museo de Alejandría hasta la escuela de la Catedral de Chartres y laSociedad Real de Londres. El autor nos traslada a la mente de los científicos de la Antigüedad y la Edad Media para mostrarnos cómo ellos no solo no entendían lo que nosotros ya entendemos del mundo; en realidad, tampoco sabían qué era lo que había que entender, ni por supuesto cómo entenderlo. Sin embargo, a raíz de la lucha por resolver misterios tales como el curioso movimiento de los...

Una revisión de las teorías sobre el origen y la evolución del Universo. Física, metafísica, ciencia ficción y (a)teología en la cosmología antigua y moderna

Autor: John Auping Birch

Número de Páginas: 815

Los tres primeros minutos del universo

Autor: Steven Weinberg

Número de Páginas: 163

El sueño de una teoría final

Autor: Steven Weinberg

Número de Páginas: 559

Steven Weinberg, premio Nobel de Física por su contribución a la unificación de dos de las fuerzas básicas de la naturaleza -la fuerza débil y el electromagnetismo-, aborda en este libro la gran aventura intelectual de nuestro tiempo: la búsqueda de una "teoría final", aquella en la que todas las preguntas fundamentales hallarían respuesta sin requerir una explicación en términos de otros principios. Weinberg, que no sólo es un gran físico sino un excelente divulgador, nos explica de manera llana y comprensible la idea de esta "teoría final", los pasos que han conducido hacia ella y los obstáculos que encuentra, dejándonos en la frontera de esa tierra prometida.

Imposturas Científicas

Autor: Baudouin Jurdant

Número de Páginas: 324

Oráculos de la ciencia

Autor: Karl Giberson , Mariano Artigas Mayayo

Número de Páginas: 386

La ciencia forma parte de nuestra compresión contemporánea del mundo y de nuestra esperanza en el futuro. Para algunos ha desplazado a la religión, y los creyentes deben afrontar los desafíos planteados por la ciencia. Sin embargo, pocos tienen un conocimiento científico directo, sino que la impresión que en general se tiene de la ciencia está más bien basada en el trabajo de los divulgadores, figuras públicas que crean la imagen de la ciencia que llega a la gente común. Además, las opiniones de estos intelectuales públicos sobre la relación entre ciencia y religión son a menudo controvertidas, personales, e incluso idiosincráticas. Sin embargo, son ampliamente conocidas y percibidas por muchos como conclusiones autorizadas derivadas de la ciencia. Oraculos de la Ciencia analiza los escritos populares de los seis científicos que más han influido en nuestra percepción de la ciencia. Los biólogos Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, y Edward O. Wilson y los físicos Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking y Steven Weinberg se han convertido en intelectuales públicos, que han articulado una visión mucho más amplia de la ciencia y del papel que debe jugar en la moderna...

Enseñanzas selectas

Autor: Ramtha , J.z. Knight

Número de Páginas: 200

Cuál es nuestro propósito en la vida, la preocupación por los hijos y los seres queridos, cómo sanar a otras personas, la posibilidad de tener almas gemelas, la existencia de los extraterrestres, cuál fue la verdadera misión de Jesús, qué hacer para reclamar nuestro poder ... Todos éstos y muchos otros temas serán ampliamente abordados a lo largo de este libro, y las respuestas de Ramtha nos van a ofrecer una nueva visión profundamente afectada por su amor y sabiduría.

Quantum Field Theory I: Basics in Mathematics and Physics

Autor: Eberhard Zeidler

Número de Páginas: 1060

This is the first volume of a modern introduction to quantum field theory which addresses both mathematicians and physicists, at levels ranging from advanced undergraduate students to professional scientists. The book bridges the acknowledged gap between the different languages used by mathematicians and physicists. For students of mathematics the author shows that detailed knowledge of the physical background helps to motivate the mathematical subjects and to discover interesting interrelationships between quite different mathematical topics. For students of physics, fairly advanced mathematics is presented, which goes beyond the usual curriculum in physics.

Science and Christianity

Autor: Henry F. Schaefer

Número de Páginas: 212

In Science and Christianity: CONFLICT OR COHERENCE? Dr. Henry F. Schaefer's university lectures have been expanded to full-length essays. Thus we have a first-hand account of the lively current science/Christianity discussions by one of the major participants. Science and Christianity describes why and how Dr. Schaefer became a Christian as a young professor of Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley. Throughout, the book retains the highly personal character of the university lectures, general respect for those with whom the author disagrees, and a delightful sense of humor.

Ciencia y literatura

Autor: Miguel De Asúa

Número de Páginas: 321

El objetivo de este libro es presentar al lector general algunos aspectos de las relaciones entre ciencia y literatura, consideradas históricamente, desde el punto de vista de la historia de la ciencia, es decir, privilegiando cuestiones como la repercusión literaria de determinado tema científico o la función de defensa y crítica de la ciencia cumplida por la literatura, aunque sin dejar de sugerir asuntos más complicados, como la progresiva independización del discurso científico respecto de otros más abarcativos culturalmente o la relación entre ciencia y humanidades. En cada uno de los períodos en que hemos dividido este ensayo, se destacan o recortan algunos autores, obras o temas representativos de los variados tipos de relaciones entre ciencia y literatura que es posible verificar en la historia del pensamiento occidental.

The Number of the Heavens

Autor: Tom Siegfried

Número de Páginas: 353

The award-winning former editor of Science News shows that one of the most fascinating and controversial ideas in contemporary cosmology—the existence of multiple parallel universes—has a long and divisive history that continues to this day. We often consider the universe to encompass everything that exists, but some scientists have come to believe that the vast, expanding universe we inhabit may be just one of many. The totality of those parallel universes, still for some the stuff of science fiction, has come to be known as the multiverse. The concept of the multiverse, exotic as it may be, isn’t actually new. In The Number of the Heavens, veteran science journalist Tom Siegfried traces the history of this controversial idea from antiquity to the present. Ancient Greek philosophers first raised the possibility of multiple universes, but Aristotle insisted on one and only one cosmos. Then in 1277 the bishop of Paris declared it heresy to teach that God could not create as many universes as he pleased, unleashing fervent philosophical debate about whether there might exist a “plurality of worlds.” As the Middle Ages gave way to the Renaissance, the philosophical debates...

The Faith of Scientists

Autor: Nancy K. Frankenberry

Número de Páginas: 541

The Faith of Scientists is an anthology of writings by twenty-one legendary scientists, from the dawn of the Scientific Revolution to the frontiers of science today, about their faith, their views about God, and the place religion holds--or doesn't--in their lives in light of their commitment to science. This is the first book to bring together so many world-renowned figures of Western science and present them in their own words, offering an intimate window into their private and public reflections on science and faith. Leading religion scholar Nancy Frankenberry draws from diaries, personal letters, speeches, essays, and interviews, and reveals that the faith of scientists can take many different forms, whether religious or secular, supernatural or naturalistic, conventional or unorthodox. These eloquent writings reflect a spectrum of views from diverse areas of scientific inquiry. Represented here are some of the most influential and colossal personalities in the history of science, from the founders of science such as Galileo, Johannes Kepler, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein, to modern-day scientists like Carl Sagan, Stephen Jay Gould, Jane...

Chance Or Purpose?

Autor: Christoph Sconborn , Christoph Von Schšnborn

Número de Páginas: 190

Cardinal Christoph Schonborn's article on evolution and creation in The New York Times launched an international controversy. Critics charged him with biblical literalism and "creationism." In this book, Cardinal Schonborn responds to his critics by tackling the hard questions with a carefully reasoned "theology of creation." Can we still speak intelligently of the world as "creation" and affirm the existence of the Creator, or is God a "delusion"? How should an informed believer read Genesis? If God exists, why is there so much injustice and suffering? Are human beings a part of nature or elevated above it? What is man's destiny? Is everything a matter of chance or can we discern purpose in human existence? In his treatment of evolution, Cardinal Schonborn distinguishes the biological theory from "evolutionism," the ideology that tries to reduce all of reality to mindless, meaningless processes. He argues that science and a rationally grounded faith are not at odds and that what many people represent as "science" is really a set of philosophical positions that will not withstand critical scrutiny. Chance or Purpose? directly raises the philosophical and theological issues many...

The Materiality of Language

Autor: David Bleich

Número de Páginas: 576

A critique of male-dominated modes of language use, their roots in higher education, their effects, and their spill over into popular culture. David Bleich sees the human body, its affective life, social life, and political functions as belonging to the study of language. In The Materiality of Language, Bleich addresses the need to end centuries of limiting access to language and its many contexts of use. To recognize language as material and treat it as such, argues Bleich, is to remove restrictions to language access due to historic patterns of academic censorship and unfair gender practices. Language is understood as a key path in the formation of all social and political relations, and becomes available for study by all speakers, who may regulate it, change it, and make it flexible like other material things. “A potentially foundational text in an emergent field [of] language studies, whose work is to break up the monopoly Linguistics and Philosophy have had on the study of language. . . . The insight that the affective operation of language is elided in nearly all approaches to [language] acquisition is brilliant and astounding. . . . The analysis of subject creation as an...

El sueño de Sancho

Autor: Manuel Lozano Leyva

Número de Páginas: 843

¿Ver para creer o creer para ver? Una irreverente historia del eterno conflicto entre la ciencia y las creencias. «Sancho, pues vos queréis que se os crea lo que habéis visto en el cielo, yo quiero que vos me creáis a mí lo que vi en la cueva de Montesinos; y no os digo más.» Manuel Lozano Leyva recurre a este pacto de fe entre don Quijote y Sancho Panza para dar comienzo a un análisis de la evolución en paralelo de los dos productos más sorprendentes del cerebro humano: la ciencia y las creencias. Con este objetivo en mente, el autor aborda los hitos históricos que han marcado esta compleja relación secular. Desde el inicio de los tiempos, las respuestas teológicas a los mayores interrogantes de la humanidad han conformado doctrinas con el poder de cohesionar las más diversas comunidades. Sin embargo, la progresiva aparición de teorías científicas para arrojar luz sobre dichas cuestiones desafiaría el dogma instaurado y llevaría al extremo el enfrentamiento entre ciencia y religión, técnica y creencias, racionalidad y fe. En El sueño de Sancho se desvela el origen, el desarrollo y, en muchos casos, la extinción de las respuestas que la humanidad ha ido...

À la recherche de l'espace et du temps perdus - 2e édition

Autor: Jacques Léon

Número de Páginas: 337

Quelles nouvelles représentations de l’espace et du temps nous a légué ce dernier siècle de physique dominé par la physique quantique et la cosmologie ? Ce livre tente d’expliquer en quoi les théories physiques du XXème siècle (la relativité restreinte et générale, la mécanique quantique, la théorie du Big Bang, le modèle standard, etc.) ont affecté notre conception de l’espace et du temps. Cette seconde édition a été enrichie par un chapitre consacré à la flèche du temps. De plus, elle a été mise à jour en prenant en compte les tous derniers développements dans le domaine de la cosmologie et de la physique théorique comme la mise en évidence des ondes gravitationnelles, la recherche de la nature de la matière noire, la théorie des supercordes, la gravité quantique à boucles, l’entropie des trous noirs, le rayonnement de Hawking, etc.

Darwin Meets Einstein

Autor: Frans W. Saris

Número de Páginas: 175

A witty, hard-hitting exploration of the ultimate aims of science in a dramatic form.

Science Laws and Their Applications

Autor: Kulwant Singh

Número de Páginas: 343

This book concisely highlights various science laws, along with their formulas. Science laws are statements that describe natural phenomena or relationships in the physical world that have been repeatedly observed and confirmed through empirical evidence and experimentation. These laws are based on observations, measurements, and calculations, and are often expressed in mathematical terms. Examples of well-known scientific laws include: Newton's Laws of Motion, the Law of Conservation of Energy, Ohm's Law, Boyle's Law, and the Law of Universal Gravitation. These laws are fundamental to our understanding of the natural world and are the foundation upon which many scientific theories and applications are built. This book describes the various laws used in the physical sciences and elaborates briefly on the applications of each of these laws.

Nobel Prize Winners in Physics

Autor: Arun Agarwal

Número de Páginas: 350

The book opens with the portrait of the man behind the awards: Alfred Bernhard Nobel and his biographical sketch. It gives an introduction to the Nobel foundation, prizes,selection of prize winners, and prize ceremonies. Nobel diplomas and Nobel Prize amounts are described in brief. In the end, a list of all 168 Nobel Prizewinners are given which includes the prize-awarding year and prize winning work.Also included is a short account of the laureates' life and work, followed by a historical and explanatory introduction to the particular discovery or achievement which gained him or her the prize.

The Scientific Sublime

Autor: Alan G. Gross

Número de Páginas: 329

The sublime evokes our awe, our terror, and our wonder. Applied first in ancient Greece to the heights of literary expression, in the 18th-century the sublime was extended to nature and to the sciences, enterprises that viewed the natural world as a manifestation of God's goodness, power, and wisdom. In The Scientific Sublime, Alan Gross reveals the modern-day sublime in popular science. He shows how the great popular scientists of our time--Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, Steven Weinberg, Brian Greene, Lisa Randall, Rachel Carson, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins, and E. O. Wilson--evoke the sublime in response to fundamental questions: How did the universe begin? How did life? How did language? These authors maintain a tradition initiated by Joseph Addison, Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, and Adam Smith, towering 18th-century figures who adapted the literary sublime first to nature, then to science--though with one crucial difference: religion has been replaced wholly by science. In a final chapter, Gross explores science's attack on religion, an assault that attempts to sweep permanently under the rug two questions science cannot answer: What is the meaning of...

Physicists

Autor: Dean Miller

Número de Páginas: 179

In this book, a breakdown of the life and work of some of history's pioneers in the study of physics are thoroughly explored. Notable physicists include Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton, and Galileo Galilei. Their contribution to science and human kind is insurmountable. This book provides excellent biographical sketches for trailblazers in physics. Specific articles are devoted to the above mentioned scientists, among others, covering the contributions to their field, specifically addressing how their research, discoveries, and inventions impacted human understanding and experience.

Oracles of Science

Autor: Karl Giberson , Mariano Artigas

Número de Páginas: 284

Oracles of Science examines the popular writings of the six scientists who have been the most influential in shaping our perception of science, how it works, and how it relates to other fields of human endeavor, especially religion. Biologists Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, and Edward O. Wilson, and physicists Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, and Steven Weinberg, have become public intellectuals, articulating a much larger vision for science and what role it should play in the modern worldview. The scientific prestige and literary eloquence of each of these great thinkers combine to transform them into what can only be called oracles of science. Their controversial, often personal, sometimes idiosyncratic opinions become widely known and perceived by many to be authoritative. Curiously, the leading 'oracles of science' are predominantly secular in ways that don't reflect the distribution of religious beliefs within the scientific community. Many of them are even hostile to religion, creating a false impression that science as a whole is incompatible with religion. Karl Giberson and Mariano Artigas offer an informed analysis of the views of these six scientists, carefully...

Nuclear Theory in the Age of Multimessenger Astronomy

Autor: Omar Benhar , Alessandro Lovato , Andrea Maselli , Francesco Pannarale

Número de Páginas: 481

Over the last decade, astrophysical observations of neutron stars — both as isolated and binary sources — have paved the way for a deeper understanding of the structure and dynamics of matter beyond nuclear saturation density. The mapping between astrophysical observations and models of dense matter based on microscopic dynamics has been poorly investigated so far. However, the increased accuracy of present and forthcoming observations may be instrumental in resolving the degeneracy between the predictions of different equations of state. Astrophysical and laboratory probes have the potential to paint to a new coherent picture of nuclear matter — and, more generally, strong interactions — over the widest range of densities occurring in the Universe. This book provides a self-contained account of neutron star properties, microscopic nuclear dynamics and the recent observational developments in multimessenger astronomy. It also discusses the unprecedented possibilities to shed light on long standing and fundamental issues, such as the validity of the description of matter in terms of pointlike baryons and leptons and the appearance of deconfined quarks in the high density...

Annual Report

Autor: Robert A. Welch Foundation

Número de Páginas: 618

Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur

Autor: Tom Lancaster , Stephen Blundell

Número de Páginas: 505

Quantum field theory provides the theoretical backbone to most modern physics. This book is designed to bring quantum field theory to a wider audience of physicists. It is packed with worked examples, witty diagrams, and applications intended to introduce a new audience to this revolutionary theory.

The Cause and Evolution of the Universe: Fact and Myth in Modern Astrophysics

Autor: John Auping Birch

Número de Páginas: 434

The work of Dr John Auping seeks to assist readers to differentiate observationally verified aspects of cosmology from ideas whose verification is distant, or perhaps impossible. Such a task is performed by using a careful application of the orthodox scientific method. This English edition is a part of Auping’s original work especially devoted to the description of the dynamics of stars, and the analysis of the Big Bang, steady state and multiverse models from a critical point of view. The author approaches different aspects of the evolution of the Universe using different branches of astrophysics, Newtonian mechanics, nuclear physics, thermodynamics, quantum physics and general relativity, with a clear and concise narrative. Mathematical boxes support the deeper study of mathematical-physical relations, which can be omitted by readers who are not specialised.

First Principles: Building Perimeter Institute

Autor: Howard Burton

Número de Páginas: 257

In this second edition of First Principles: Building Perimeter Institute, Howard Burton tells the remarkable and unconventional story—with a bold and biting humour and surprising candour—of the founding of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Howard was the Founding Director of Perimeter Institute and his experiences at developing the research and outreach mandates of PI are described in this thought-provoking book featuring a foreword by Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose. How was PI created from scratch, from first principles? What were the hurdles? What were the challenges? What was the ''Howard and Mike show'' all about and what did BlackBerrys and RIM have to do with PI? In vivid and compelling detail, Howard describes his remarkable odyssey of partnering with BlackBerry founder Mike Lazaridis to develop a pioneering new theoretical physics institute entirely from scratch.

L'inconnue du commencement

Autor: Pierre Gibert

Número de Páginas: 186

"Il faut un commencement à tout", dit la sagesse populaire, et elle ne doute pas que les commencements existent et qu'on peut les appréhender sans peine. Pierre Gibert impose ici une évidence exactement contraire : les commencements échappent à la conscience comme à la reconstitution. Que ce soit en psychanalyse, en histoire, en physique, en littérature, en religion..., toujours les commencements sont racontés, décrits, déclarés et interprétés après coup. Et puisqu'il faut bien parler des débuts, les hommes ont inventé des moyens littéraires : " Il était une fois... ", " En ce temps-là... ", " Au commencement... " et bien d'autres " ouvertures " ; mais surtout ils ont créé des mythes et des récits " de commencement ", dont les premiers chapitres de la Bible sont, dans la culture occidentale, le texte emblématique. Ce ne sont pas des récits neutres : leur fonction idéologique, doctrinale, philosophique, biographique et autobiographique est immense. En tout cas, après ce livre, on ne pourra plus dire comme Racine dans Les Plaideurs : " Ce que je sais le mieux, c'est mon commencement " ! Pierre Gibert, exégète biblique, est l'auteur au Seuil de Bible,...

Abdus Science

Autor: Maxu Masood

Número de Páginas: 418

Abdus Salam, the subject of the book was a Pakistani scientist who shared the Physics Nobel Prize in 1979. Born in a remote, rural sunburnt country town in the outback of colonial Punjab, he made it to the forefront of theoretical physics. Abdus Salam compartmentalised his studies of physics, politics, religion, and family. Although his life in physics has been sufficiently covered, few have extensively studied his life and engagement in other fields. He served military regimes and was closely associated with the birth of nuclear expertise in Pakistan where his membership of the schismatic Ahmadiyah community marginalised him. His working life was divided between London’s Imperial College and the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. His fans perceive him as a victim of religious bigotry but, on his part, he did not seem to exercise scientific detachment in religion. Abdus Salam had two wives. His second wife, Louise Johnson (1940-2012), was a leading Molecular Biologist who served as Professor Emeritus in Oxford University; and it remains an awkward question as to how the two managed bigamy in Europe. Abdus Salam validated the Judaic-Muslim prohibition ...

Time Traveler

Autor: Dr. Ronald L. Mallett , Bruce Henderson

Número de Páginas: 158

This is the dramatic and inspirational first-person story of theoretical physicist, Dr. Ronald Mallett, who recently discovered the basic equations for a working time machine that he believes can be used as a transport vehicle to the past. Combining elements of Rocket Boys and Elegant Universe, Time Traveler follows Mallett's discovery of Einstein's work on space-time, his study of Godel's work on a solution of Einstein's equation that might allow for time travel, and his own research in theoretical physics spanning thirty years that culminated in his recent discovery of the effects of circulating laser light and its application to time travel. The foundation for Mallett's historic time-travel work is Einstein's theory of general relativity, a sound platform for any physicist. Through his years of reading and studying Einstein, Mallett became a buff well before he had any notion of the importance of the grand old relativist's theories to his own career. One interesting subtext to the story is Mallett's identification with, and keen interest in, Einstein. Mallett provides easy-to-understand explanations of the famous physicist's seminal work.

Portrait of Gunnar Källén

Autor: Cecilia Jarlskog

Número de Páginas: 599

Wolfgang Pauli referred to him as 'my discovery,' Robert Oppenheimer described him as 'one of the most gifted theorists' and Niels Bohr found him enormously stimulating. Who was the man in question, Gunnar Källén (1926-1968)? His appearance in the physics sky was like a shooting star. His contributions to the scientific debate caused excitement among young and old. Similar to his friend and mentor, Wolfgang Pauli, he demanded honesty and rigor in physics - a distinct dividing line between fact and speculation. In his obituary, Arthur S. Wightman would write: 'Gunnar Källén was a proud continuer of the tradition in quantum field theory established by Wolfgang Pauli. His papers on quantum electrodynamics in the period 1950-1954 carried the non-perturbative approach to quantum electrodynamics forward to a point beyond which very little essential progress has been made up to the present day. At the time I was trying to puzzle out the grammar of the language of quantum field theory, and here was Källén already writing poetry in the language!'. In addition to being a remarkable scientist, Källén had a very interesting personality, well worth exploring. In her book, physicist...

Back To Darwin

Autor: John B. Cobb

Número de Páginas: 449

This book provides a distinctive, radical way beyond the quarrels between evolutionary science and Christian belief. Leading scientists, philosophers, and theologians critically discuss the metaphysical assumptions of neo-Darwinism and offer concrete ways of broadening mainstream evolutionary theory. Their open exchange, moderated by veteran process theologian John B. Cobb, presents a holistic case for evolution that both theists and nontheists can accept. Contributors: Francisco J. Ayala Ian G. Barbour Charles Birch Philip Clayton John B. Cobb Jr. John Greene David Ray Griffin A. Y. Gunter John F. Haught Lynn Margulis Reg Morrison Dorion Sagan Jeffrey Schloss Robert J. Valenza Howard J. Van Till

A to Z of Physicists, Updated Edition

Autor: Darryl Leiter

Número de Páginas: 382

A to Z of Physicists, Updated Edition focuses not only on the lives and personalities of those profiled, but also on their research and contributions to the field. A fascinating and important element of this work is the attention paid to the obstacles that minority physicists had to overcome to reach their personal and professional goals. Through incidents, quotations, and photographs, the entries portray something of the human face, which is often lost in books on science and scientists. A to Z of Physicists, Updated Edition features more than 150 entries and 51 black-and-white photographs. Culturally inclusive and spanning the whole range of physicists from ancient times to the present day, this is an ideal resource for students and general readers interested in the history of physics or the significant aspects of the personal and professional lives of important physicists. People covered include: Archimedes (ca. 285–212 BCE) Homi Jehangir Bhabha (1909–1966) Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (1904–1990) Marie Curie (1867–1934) George Gamow (1904–1968) Tsung Dao Lee (1926–present) Lise Meitner (1878–1968) Yuval Ne'eman (1925–2006) Johannes Stark (1874–1957) Nikola...

A Final Story

Autor: Nasser Zakariya

Número de Páginas: 563

Towards a Final Story is the first history of the modern scientific epic. These epic stories pull together our knowledge of the universe, uniting material and biological origins, from beginning to end. The authors of these epics--among them Carl Sagan, E.O. Wilson, and Steven Weinberg--saw their task as providing an integrated schema that would not only bring together but also go beyond the particular scientific results and disciplines available as they wrote their histories. Nasser Zakariya traces how such epic stories could achieve what they claimed, how they inhabit culture and politics, and how they arrived at the present moment from a period in the previous century when inquiries into ultimate origins were regarded by many as unscientific and unanswerable. These prominent, popular historical narratives of science are important forms of knowledge in their own right. They expose what science means in the wider culture and at the same time focus attention on the near paradoxical nature of a universal history narrated by humanity for humanity.

Living in Spin

Autor: Andrew P. Porter

Número de Páginas: 332

All the hard questions about human action are about what to include in a story, what can be left out, and how to characterize what gets included. A narrative selects from all the world's motions which ones are part of or relevant to an act, and so narratives give us what narratives have already shaped: the relation is circular. Many narratives can be told of an act, not all consistent. Some features of human action: - events "off-stage" determine what's happening "on-stage"; - many actions ``pass through'' motions in view; - an act can be changed after the fact; - action presupposes language; - what an act is can be highly ambiguous; - we judge acts (and narratives) because we have a stake in them.

Superconducting Super Collider

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On Energy And Natural Resources

Número de Páginas: 140

Albert Einstein Memorial Lectures

Autor: Raphael Mechoulam , Jacob D Bekenstein

Número de Páginas: 215

This volume consists of a selection of the Albert Einstein Memorial Lectures presented annually at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Delivered by eminent scientists and scholars, including Nobel laureates, they cover a broad spectrum of subjects in physics, chemistry, life science, mathematics, historiography and social issues.This distinguished memorial lecture series was inaugurated by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities following an international symposium held in Jerusalem in March 1979 to commemorate the centenary of Albert Einstein's birth. Considering that Einstein's interests, activities and influence were not restricted to theoretical physics but spanned broad fields affecting society and the welfare of humankind, it was felt that these memorial lectures should be addressed to scientists, scholars and erudite laypersons rather than to physicists alone.

The Quantum Story

Autor: Jim Baggott

Número de Páginas: 582

The twentieth century was defined by physics. From the minds of the world's leading physicists there flowed a river of ideas that would transport mankind to the pinnacle of wonderment and to the very depths of human despair. This was a century that began with the certainties of absolute knowledge and ended with the knowledge of absolute uncertainty. It was a century in which physicists developed weapons with the capacity to destroy our reality, whilst at the same time denying us the possibility that we can ever properly comprehend it. Almost everything we think we know about the nature of our world comes from one theory of physics. This theory was discovered and refined in the first thirty years of the twentieth century and went on to become quite simply the most successful theory of physics ever devised. Its concepts underpin much of the twenty-first century technology that we have learned to take for granted. But its success has come at a price, for it has at the same time completely undermined our ability to make sense of the world at the level of its most fundamental constituents. Rejecting the fundamental elements of uncertainty and chance implied by quantum theory, Albert...

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Autor: Richard Dawkins

Número de Páginas: 439

Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory. This is a rich and vibrant collection that captures the poetry and excitement of communicating scientific understanding and scientific effort from 1900 to the present day. Professor Dawkins has included writing from a diverse range of scientists, some of whom need no introduction, and some of whose works have become modern classics, while others may be less familiar - but all convey the passion of great scientists writing about their science.

Sixteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, The: On Recent Developments In Theoretical And Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics, And Relativistic Field Theories - Proceedings Of The Mg16 Meeting On General Relativity (In 4 Volumes)

Autor: Remo Ruffini , Gregory Vereshchagin

Número de Páginas: 4880

The proceedings of MG16 give a broad view of all aspects of gravitational physics and astrophysics, from mathematical issues to recent observations and experiments. The scientific program of the meeting included 46 plenary presentations, 3 public lectures, 5 round tables and 81 parallel sessions arranged during the intense six-day online meeting. All talks were recorded and are available on the ICRANet YouTube channel at the following link: www.icranet.org/video_mg16.These proceedings are a representative sample of the very many contributions made at the meeting. They contain 383 papers, among which 14 come from the plenary sessions.The material represented in these proceedings cover the following topics: accretion, active galactic nuclei, alternative theories of gravity, black holes (theory, observations and experiments), binaries, boson stars, cosmic microwave background, cosmic strings, dark energy and large scale structure, dark matter, education, exact solutions, early universe, fundamental interactions and stellar evolution, fast transients, gravitational waves, high energy physics, history of relativity, neutron stars, precision tests, quantum gravity, strong fields, and...