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1) Cosmos
Publisher
Cosmos Studios
Pub. Date
2000, [c1980]
Language
English
Description
Carl Sagan's complete Emmy and Peabody award-winning thirteen episode mini-series exploring cosmology and astronomy.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Who would have predicted that a hot spot left over from the Big Bang would eventually lead to our galaxy, the solar system, the Earth, - and to us? Origins explores how the universe and our planet began amid chaos and eventually gave birth to the first stirrings of life. Join cutting-dege scientists on a voyage deep into the Earth to find analogs to the earliest life on our planet, and travel a million miles from Earth with a space probe designed...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Traces the evolution of the universe as understood by the most cutting-edge scientific minds, covering a variety of interests from quarks and galaxies to the philosophy of science and humanity's role in the cosmos.
A dazzling exploration of the universe and our relationship to it, as seen through the lens of today's most cutting-edge scientific thinking.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Scientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But there remains a critical gap in our knowledge: we still know very little about what happened in the first seconds after the Big Bang. This book focuses on what we have recently learned and are still striving to understand about this most essential and mysterious period of time at the beginning of cosmic history. Taking...
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Language
English
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Description
"This illustrated narrative explains the universe from the solar system to the farthest reaches of space"--
No one can make the mysteries of the universe more comprehensible and fun than Neil deGrasse Tyson. Drawing on mythology, history, and literature--alongside his trademark wit and charm--Tyson and StarTalk senior producer Lindsey Nyx Walker bring planetary science down to Earth and principles of astrophysics within reach. In this entertaining...
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Language
English
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Description
According to a recent survey, the most popular question about science from the general public was: what came before the Big Bang? We all know on some level what the Big Bang is, but we don't know how it became the accepted theory, or how we might know what came before. In Before the Big Bang, Brian Clegg (the critically acclaimed author of Upgrade Me and The God Effect) explores the history of this remarkable concept. From the earliest creation myths,...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Relates the scientific story and the human struggle behind the search for the string theory--the ultimate theory which scientists believe is capable of describing all physical phenomena, large and small; and discusses how the theory is impacting human understanding of space and time.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the universe, from its inception at the big bang to its disintegrated slide into the far future, identifying and describing five ages the authors believe the universe will go through over its ten thousand trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion-year existence.
19) The bigger bang
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Examines some of the ideas scientists are developing to explain what happened in the first instant of the universe's existence.
20) Don't know much about the universe: everything you need to know about the cosmos but never learned
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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