The Ascent Of Gravity
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Author |
: Marcus Chown |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 2017-11-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781681775944 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1681775948 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ascent of Gravity by : Marcus Chown
Why the force that keeps our feet on the ground holds the key to understanding the nature of time and the origin of the universe. Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognized and described yet it is the least understood. It is a "force" that keeps your feet on the ground yet no such force actually exists. Gravity, to steal the words of Winston Churchill, is "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." And penetrating that enigma promises to answer the biggest questions in science: what is space? What is time? What is the universe? And where did it all come from? Award-winning writer Marcus Chown takes us on an unforgettable journey from the recognition of the "force" of gravity in 1666 to the discovery of gravitational waves in 2015. And, as we stand on the brink of a seismic revolution in our worldview, he brings us up to speed on the greatest challenge ever to confront physics.
Author |
: Caleb Scharf |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2022-06-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780593087251 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0593087259 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ascent of Information by : Caleb Scharf
“Full of fascinating insights drawn from an impressive range of disciplines, The Ascent of Information casts the familiar and the foreign in a dramatic new light.” —Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Your information has a life of its own, and it’s using you to get what it wants. One of the most peculiar and possibly unique features of humans is the vast amount of information we carry outside our biological selves. But in our rush to build the infrastructure for the 20 quintillion bits we create every day, we’ve failed to ask exactly why we’re expending ever-increasing amounts of energy, resources, and human effort to maintain all this data. Drawing on deep ideas and frontier thinking in evolutionary biology, computer science, information theory, and astrobiology, Caleb Scharf argues that information is, in a very real sense, alive. All the data we create—all of our emails, tweets, selfies, A.I.-generated text and funny cat videos—amounts to an aggregate lifeform. It has goals and needs. It can control our behavior and influence our well-being. And it’s an organism that has evolved right alongside us. This symbiotic relationship with information offers a startling new lens for looking at the world. Data isn’t just something we produce; it’s the reason we exist. This powerful idea has the potential to upend the way we think about our technology, our role as humans, and the fundamental nature of life. The Ascent of Information offers a humbling vision of a universe built of and for information. Scharf explores how our relationship with data will affect our ongoing evolution as a species. Understanding this relationship will be crucial to preventing our data from becoming more of a burden than an asset, and to preserving the possibility of a human future.
Author |
: Marcus Chown |
Publisher |
: Faber & Faber |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 057123545X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780571235452 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You by : Marcus Chown
The most accessible guide to quantum physics there is, from the New Scientist cosmology correspondent.
Author |
: Marcus Chown |
Publisher |
: Diversion Books |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2019-04-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781635765939 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1635765935 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand by : Marcus Chown
A mind-bending journey through some of the most weird and wonderful facts about our universe, vividly illuminating the hidden truths that govern our everyday lives. Fact: You could fit the whole human race in the volume of a sugar cube. Fact: The electrical energy in a single mosquito is enough to cause a global mass extinction. Fact: You age more quickly on the top floor than on the ground floor. So much of our world seems to make perfect sense, and scientific breakthroughs have helped us understand ourselves, our planet, and our place in the universe in fascinating detail. But our adventures in space, our deepening understanding of the quantum world, and our leaps in technology have also revealed a universe far stranger than we ever imagined. With brilliant clarity and wit, bestselling author Marcus Chown examines the profound science behind fifty remarkable scientific facts that help explain the vast complexities of our existence. “The tone is consistently light and breezy...An addictive, intriguing, and entertaining read...A handy guide for anyone yearning to spice up their conversational skills.”—Booklist “Heavy stuff lightly spun―just the thing for the science buff in the house.”―Kirkus Review
Author |
: Mary D. Edwards |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012-05-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0786465743 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780786465743 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gravity in Art by : Mary D. Edwards
The gravitational pull of the earth and the challenge to resist it have long inspired artists. Like the Greek vases depicting Sisyphus's endless quest to push his boulder up a hill and the Whirlwind Lovers in Dante's Inferno, images that portray the defiance of gravity or submission to it permeate the artistic world. This collection examines the ways artists from antiquity to today use gravity and levity symbolically, metaphorically, and expressively. The 26 essays examine these opposing forces through analysis of such dualities as ascent and descent, weight and weightlessness, hope and despair, or life and death, and draw distinct lines between the works of art and texts of such writers and thinkers as Homer, Aristotle, Newton, Marx and Einstein. Together, they demonstrate that as our ideas about this essential force or space-time concept change, so too, do artists create new ways to represent visually the phenomenon of gravity.
Author |
: Thomas Pynchon |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 885 |
Release |
: 2012-06-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101594650 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101594659 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gravity's Rainbow by : Thomas Pynchon
Winner of the 1974 National Book Award "The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." - The New Republic “A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000.
Author |
: Marcus Chown |
Publisher |
: Hachette UK |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2017-04-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474601894 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474601898 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ascent of Gravity by : Marcus Chown
The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2017 'Does Einstein proud . . . Eminently readable' Guardian 'No one has covered the topic with such a light touch and joie de vivre . . . a delight' Brian Clegg Gravity was the first force to be recognised and described yet it is still the least understood. If we can unlock its secrets, the force that keeps our feet on the ground holds the key to understanding the biggest questions in science: what is space? What is time? What is the universe? And where did it all come from? Award-winning writer Marcus Chown takes us on an unforgettable journey from the recognition of the 'force' of gravity in 1666 to the discovery of gravitational waves in the twenty-first century. And, as we stand on the brink of a seismic revolution in our worldview, he brings us up to speed on the greatest challenge ever to confront physics.
Author |
: Patricia Fara |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 782 |
Release |
: 2010-02-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191655579 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191655570 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science by : Patricia Fara
Science: A Four Thousand Year History rewrites science's past. Instead of focussing on difficult experiments and abstract theories, Patricia Fara shows how science has always belonged to the practical world of war, politics, and business. Rather than glorifying scientists as idealized heroes, she tells true stories about real people - men (and some women) who needed to earn their living, who made mistakes, and who trampled down their rivals in their quest for success. Fara sweeps through the centuries, from ancient Babylon right up to the latest hi-tech experiments in genetics and particle physics, illuminating the financial interests, imperial ambitions, and publishing enterprises that have made science the powerful global phenomenon that it is today. She also ranges internationally, illustrating the importance of scientific projects based around the world, from China to the Islamic empire, as well as the more familiar tale of science in Europe, from Copernicus to Charles Darwin and beyond. Above all, this four thousand year history challenges scientific supremacy, arguing controversially that science is successful not because it is always right - but because people have said that it is right.
Author |
: Chloë Frayne |
Publisher |
: Andrews McMeel Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2021-04-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781524870324 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1524870323 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Gravity Inside Us by : Chloë Frayne
From rising Australian poet Chloë Frayne comes her newest poetry collection, The Gravity Inside Us. Gathering inspiration from a life of travel, hope, long-distance relationships, healing, and adventure, Frayne invites readers into her world. The Gravity Inside Us is an ode to whatever it is we carry that pulls us in and out of place, and speaks so insistently of fate. Through writing about her own experiences, this book is a reach into that space.
Author |
: Carlo Rovelli |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2019-12-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780735216112 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0735216118 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Order of Time by : Carlo Rovelli
One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. For most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy, science and literature, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe. Already a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.