books about: cosmology

books about: cosmology

books:

Cosmology

Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . .
Ph.D., Philip Plait

Viking Adult, 2008

A lively astronomy primer that uses cataclysmic scenarios to explain the universe?s most fascinating events . According to astronomer Philip Plait, the universe is an apocalypse waiting to happen But how much do we really need to fear from things like black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and supernovae? And if we should be scared, is there anything we ...

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

Leonard Susskind

Little, Brown and Company, 2008

A new rewiring of the brain of physicsts
This book tells the story of the "battle" between the author and Stephen Hawking regarding the latter claim that information is irretrievably lost in black holes. This story is the extraordinary account of the paradigm shift that has occurred in physics in the last 25 ...

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

Bantam, 1998

Informative, fascinating, highly readable
A fascinating, non-technical explanation of the modern concepts of theoretical physics. Full of wonder and surprise...makes us look at the world and universe with a fresh pair of eyes. A modern classic.

The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

Lynne Mctaggart

Harper Paperbacks, 2008

Underpinning the future
If you are interested in the future (and we all should be) read this book. It is one of those books that makes you realise that everything you were ever taught at school, and a lot of what you learned after school, was pretty much a waste of time, because life is ...

Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism

David Mills

Ulysses Press, 2006

Exceeded all of my expectations...
I've been questioning relgion for quite some time, but never really labeled myself as an atheist. This book is intended as a specific rebuttal to the creative design 'science' promoted by religiously influenced schools. Not only does it wonderfully refute creative ...

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn

University Of Chicago Press, 1996

Not Just for Those Interested in Science
Essential reading in understanding why the Enlightenment ideal of rationality is dead or at least doesn't count in ways that matter. In particular, Kuhn calls into question the idea of science as a rational enterprise, and since science is epistemologically ...

Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

Michio Kaku

Anchor, 2006

Very Easy to Understand
I don't have much physics backgroud but found this book very easy to comprehend and easy to read also. The information is astonishing.

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Brian Greene

Vintage, 2000

Excellent resource for the layman....
Don't know much about new physics? This is stuff I didn't get the first time around--they weren't discussing it back then since all of us were running from the dinosaurs.... Anyway, Greene has a good descriptive edge that will keep you reading even if the subject ...

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, ...

Michio Kaku

Doubleday, 2008

Degrees of Scientific Impossibility
Will something that is impossible now eventually become possible? In order to answer this question, the author has divided various potentially outrageous ideas into three levels of impossibility, based on current and expected future technological capabilities and the ...

A Briefer History of Time

Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow

Bantam, 2008

Non-Fiction for Science Fiction Lovers
Excellent presentation of complex scientific theories. Stephen Hawking knows how to extract core principals and shape them into digestible morsels for his readers to consume and enjoy. The material is an update from his earlier Brief History of Time, and has the same ...

The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next

Lee Smolin

Mariner Books, 2007

This is a VERY good book
about the sociology of science, and I agree completely with what it says about it, and on the need to parcel funds and scientists more equably among the several possible approaches (for example, to fundamental physical theories). The trouble is that men are not angels, ...

Cosmos

Carl Sagan

Ballantine Books, 1985

read what you can of it, but READ it!
This is an incredible book, even if it is dated. I am a words person, not numbers, so when Sagan got into a lot of equations and chemistry, I had to kind of skim over those parts. I never could have understood them, and if I'd tried to force myself to, I probably would ...

The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God

Lee Strobel

Zondervan, 2005

Refreshing veiw
It was nice to see a different view point of how creation could have occurred. This book does not try to convince you that Buddha, Yahweh, or Krishna is the force behind our existence. however they have a good argument that simple chance is not viable with our current ...

Blasphemy

Douglas Preston

Forge Books, 2008

Oh Ye of Little Faith
I am a devout Christian - have been all my life. I am also a fan of Preston. I did not find anything in this book the least bit offensive. True, I am not an over the top Fundamentalist Christian, although I am sympathetic with them. It seemed to me that the ...