Ten Tantalising Truths
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Ten Tantalising Truths
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Author : John Gribbin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-10-19
Ten Tantalising Truths written by John Gribbin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-19 with categories.
Ten Tantalising Truths
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Author : John Gribbin
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books
Release Date : 2023-10-26
Ten Tantalising Truths written by John Gribbin and has been published by Icon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-26 with Science categories.
Obvious questions do not always have obvious answers. John Gribbin is known for giving us simple explanations of big concepts in science. But there is another way to probe the mysteries of the Universe and our place in it. Faced with persistent enquiries from his grandchildren, Gribbin realised that simple questions, such as 'Why is the sky blue?', sometimes require big answers, understandable in straightforward language. In answering those simple questions, he discovered that he was telling the story of our place in the Universe, from the Big Bang to the evolutionary reasons why men are, on average, bigger than women. The questions may be obvious, but the answers are sometimes surprising and highlight one of the main joys of science - discovering the unexpected. In this book, Gribbin invites the reader to join him on this voyage of discovery, where you may think you already know the answers but should be prepared to be surprised - or at least, tantalised by the truth.
Ten Truths
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Author : Steven Considine
language : en
Publisher: Open Door Press
Release Date : 2022-03-15
Ten Truths written by Steven Considine and has been published by Open Door Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-15 with Self-Help categories.
Ten Truths is a book for anyone who seeks a more profound understanding of themselves and their World. Does it not interest you to find freedom from all limitation; find it compelling, we can live happily in the world? Don't you yearn for peace and dream of the day when you are free of fear and guilt? Doesn't your heart burn with the desire to Live in the Light of Love always; to feel no lack, no worry, no trepidation for the future? All this and more does Truth bring to those who realize it and in accepting it, live their lives by it; for such a glorious gift as this, is given to those who dare open the door to self-understanding. It is yours, but for the asking.
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Author : جون جريبين
language : ar
Publisher: Hindawi Foundation
Release Date : 2023-11-08
written by جون جريبين and has been published by Hindawi Foundation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-08 with categories.
هل تساءَلت يومًا عن السبب وراء زُرقة السماء نهارًا وظُلمتها ليلًا، أو السر وراء المذاق المالح للدم، أو لماذا الرجال أطولُ قامةً من النساء، أو ما السرعة التي تتحرَّك بها القارات، أو كَم عُمر الشمس، أو كيف نعرف أن «أينشتاين» كان على صواب؟ ستجد الإجابة عن تلك الأسئلة وغيرها في هذا الكتاب الرائع، الذي يستكمل به «جون جريبين» سلسلةَ كتُبه المُشوِّقة عن الظواهر الكونية، لكنه يتَّبع هنا نهْجًا معاكسًا؛ فبعدما استعرض من قبلُ بعضَ الإجابات البسيطة لأسئلة مُعقَّدة، يقدِّم لنا في هذا الكتاب — استنادًا إلى أدلَّةٍ علميةٍ مُؤكَّدة — إجاباتٍ عميقةً ومفصلةً لمثل تلك الأسئلة التي تبدو بسيطة.
Jact Bulletin
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Author : Joint Association of Classical Teachers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Jact Bulletin written by Joint Association of Classical Teachers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Classical literature categories.
Eight Improbable Possibilities
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Author : John Gribbin
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books
Release Date : 2021-10-07
Eight Improbable Possibilities written by John Gribbin and has been published by Icon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-07 with Science categories.
A mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science. Echoing Sherlock Holmes' famous dictum, John Gribbin tells us: 'Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, is certainly possible, in the light of present scientific knowledge.' With that in mind, in his sequel to the hugely popular Six Impossible Things and Seven Pillars of Science, Gribbin turns his attention to some of the mind-bendingly improbable truths of science. For example: We know that the Universe had a beginning, and when it was – and also that the expansion of the Universe is speeding up. We can detect ripples in space that are one ten-thousandth the width of a proton, made by colliding black holes billions of light years from Earth. And, most importantly from our perspective, all complex life on Earth today is descended from a single cell – but without the stabilising influence of the Moon, life forms like us could never have evolved.
Six Impossible Things
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Author : John Gribbin
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2019-10-08
Six Impossible Things written by John Gribbin and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-08 with Science categories.
“An elegant and accessible” investigation of quantum mechanics for non-specialists—“highly recommended” for students of the sciences, sci-fi fans, and anyone interested in the strange world of quantum physics (Forbes) Rules of the quantum world seem to say that a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time and a particle can be in two places at once. And that particle is also a wave; everything in the quantum world can described in terms of waves—or entirely in terms of particles. These interpretations were all established by the end of the 1920s, by Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, and others. But no one has yet come up with a common sense explanation of what is going on. In this concise and engaging book, astrophysicist John Gribbin offers an overview of six of the leading interpretations of quantum mechanics. Gribbin calls his account “agnostic,” explaining that none of these interpretations is any better—or any worse—than any of the others. Gribbin presents the Copenhagen Interpretation, promoted by Niels Bohr and named by Heisenberg; the Pilot-Wave Interpretation, developed by Louis de Broglie; the Many Worlds Interpretation (termed “excess baggage” by Gribbin); the Decoherence Interpretation (“incoherent”); the Ensemble “Non-Interpretation”; and the Timeless Transactional Interpretation (which theorized waves going both forward and backward in time). All of these interpretations are crazy, Gribbin warns, and some are more crazy than others—but in the quantum world, being more crazy does not necessarily mean more wrong.
Seven Pillars Of Science
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Author : John Gribbin
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books
Release Date : 2020-09-24
Seven Pillars Of Science written by John Gribbin and has been published by Icon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-24 with Science categories.
John Gribbin, author of Six Impossible Things, shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize, presents a tour of seven fundamental scientific truths that underpin our very existence. These 'pillars of science' also defy common sense. For example, solid things are mostly empty space, so how do they hold together? There appears to be no special 'life force', so how do we distinguish living things from inanimate objects? And why does ice float on water, when most solids don't? You might think that question hardly needs asking, and yet if ice didn't float, life on Earth would never have happened. The answers to all of these questions were sensational in their day, and some still are. Throughout history, science has been able to think the unthinkable - and Gribbin brilliantly shows the surprising secrets on which our understanding of life is based.
Randomistas
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Author : Andrew Leigh
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-24
Randomistas written by Andrew Leigh and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-24 with Social Science categories.
A fascinating account of how radical researchers have used experiments to overturn conventional wisdom and shaped life as we know it Experiments have consistently been used in the hard sciences, but in recent decades social scientists have adopted the practice. Randomized trials have been used to design policies to increase educational attainment, lower crime rates, elevate employment rates, and improve living standards among the poor. This book tells the stories of radical researchers who have used experiments to overturn conventional wisdom. From finding the cure for scurvy to discovering what policies really improve literacy rates, Leigh shows how randomistas have shaped life as we know it. Written in a “Gladwell-esque” style, this book provides a fascinating account of key randomized control trial studies from across the globe and the challenges that randomistas have faced in getting their studies accepted and their findings implemented. In telling these stories, Leigh draws out key lessons learned and shows the most effective way to conduct these trials.
I Bought A Mountain
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Author : Thomas Firbank
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-04-07
I Bought A Mountain written by Thomas Firbank and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-07 with Social Science categories.
WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK BARKHAM And an essay by Welsh hill farmer, Dafydd Morris-Jones 'I first saw Dyffryn in a November gale... the old house was quivering under the thrusts of the wind, and the wild, remote setting had already captured my fancy, and I will hold it till I die.' So begins the remarkable story of a 21-year-old man who, with no experience in agriculture, visited a sheep farm on a near barren Welsh mountainside in 1931 and that same day bought all 2,400 acres along with its 3000 sheep for £5,000. Set amidst the rugged grandeur of Snowdonia, I Bought a Mountain follows the struggles and triumphs of this impulsive but hard-working man and his every-bit-as-tough wife, Esme, as they fight to build the farm into prosperity. Firbank's writing is guileless and immediate and ruthlessly honest. His paean to the traditional, Welsh hill-farming way of life, transports you to a disappearing world, one ruled by the age-old rhythms of work, weather, livestock and a love of the land, and offers precious insights into conservation and sustainability.