Chandra's Cosmos
Dark Matter, Black Holes, and Other Wonders Revealed by NASA's Premier X-Ray Observatory
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On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the most powerful X-ray telescope ever built, was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia. Since then, Chandra has given us a view of the universe that is largely hidden from telescopes sensitive only to visible light.
In Chandra's Cosmos, Wallace H. Tucker uses a series of short, connected stories to describe the telescope's exploration of the hot, high-energy face of the universe. The book is organized in three parts: The Big, covering the cosmic web, dark energy, dark matter, and massive clusters of galaxies; The Bad, exploring neutron stars, stellar black holes, and supermassive black holes; and The Beautiful, discussing stars, exoplanets, and life.
Chandra has imaged the spectacular, glowing remains of exploded stars and taken spectra showing the dispersal of their elements. Chandra has observed the region around the supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way and traced the separation of dark matter from normal matter in the collision of galaxies. Tucker explores the implications of these observations in an entertaining, informative narrative aimed at space buffs and general listeners alike.
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- De James Weisner en 03-20-17
De: Ian Stewart
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The Unknown Universe
- A New Exploration of Time, Space and Cosmology
- De: Stuart Clark
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,135
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,024
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,026
On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the big bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometers of space and 13.8 billion years of time, it is physically impossible to make a better map: We will never see the early universe in more detail. On the one hand, such a view is the apotheosis of modern cosmology; on the other, it threatens to undermine almost everything we hold cosmologically sacrosanct.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Everything, Absolutely Everything!
- De Gillian en 03-09-17
De: Stuart Clark
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A Brief Welcome to the Universe
- A Pocket-Sized Tour
- De: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott
- Narrado por: Neil Hellegers
- Duración: 4 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
A Brief Welcome to the Universe offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos, from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes and time loops. Best-selling authors and acclaimed astrophysicists Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott take listeners on an unforgettable journey of exploration to reveal how our universe actually works. Propelling you from our home solar system to the outermost frontiers of space, this book builds your cosmic insight and perspective through a marvelously entertaining narrative.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A brief welcome for everyone
- De Ashley F en 08-24-24
De: Neil deGrasse Tyson, y otros
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The Physics of Star Trek
- De: Lawrence M. Krauss
- Narrado por: Larry McKeever
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 407
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 264
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 262
What actually happens when the words, "beam me up, Scottie" are uttered? What "warps" when something travels at warp speed? Internationally renowned theoretical physicist and educator Lawrence M. Krauss provides matter-of-fact scientific explanations of the physics of Star Trek in this highly creative and informative guide for both the devoted Trekkie and the physics novice.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Book. Quite Technical
- De Christopher B. en 12-07-04
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Forces of Nature
- De: Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen
- Narrado por: Samuel West
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 490
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 438
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 432
Professor Brian Cox uncovers some of the most extraordinary natural events on Earth and in the universe and beyond. From the immensity of the universe and the roundness of Earth to the form of every single snowflake, the forces of nature shape everything we see. Pushed to extremes, the results are astonishing. In seeking to understand the everyday world, the colours, structure, behaviour and history of our home, we develop the knowledge and techniques necessary to step beyond the everyday.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Complicated in its simplicity
- De Philomath en 06-13-17
De: Professor Brian Cox, y otros
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The Theory of Everything
- The Origin and Fate of the Universe
- De: Stephen Hawking
- Narrado por: Michael York
- Duración: 3 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,130
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 929
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 921
In physicist Stephen Hawking's brilliant opus, A Brief History of Time, he presented us with a bold new look at our universe, how it began, and how our old views of physics and tired theories about the creation of the universe were no longer relevant. In other words, Hawking gave us a new look at our world, our universe, and ourselves. Now, Hawking presents an even more comprehensive look at our universe, its creation, and how we see ourselves within it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shares a lot of text with a Brief History of Time.
- De Roc Myers en 01-07-15
De: Stephen Hawking
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Origins
- The Scientific Story of Creation
- De: Jim Baggott
- Narrado por: Neil Scott-Barbour
- Duración: 16 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
What is the nature of the material world? How does it work? What is the universe and how was it formed? What is life? Where do we come from and how did we evolve? How and why do we think? What does it mean to be human? How do we know? There are many different versions of our creation story. This book tells the version according to modern science. It is a unique account, starting at the Big Bang and travelling right up to the emergence of humans as conscious intelligent beings, 13.8 billion years later.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book, but WOW, the narrator ...
- De UH en 01-10-17
De: Jim Baggott
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The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics
- A Math-Free Exploration of the Science That Made Our World
- De: James Kakalios
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 67
In The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics, James Kakalios uses examples from comics and magazines to explain how breakthroughs in quantum mechanics led to such technologies as the World Wide Web, pocket-sized computers, mobile phones, and MRI machines.....
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2 out of 5 stars
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The exhibits are missing from Audible
- De David en 12-13-10
De: James Kakalios
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Exoplanets
- Diamond Worlds, Super Earths, Pulsar Planets, and the New Search for Life Beyond Our Solar System
- De: Michael Summers
- Narrado por: Jon Bennett
- Duración: 5 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 146
Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than 2,000 exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, remarkable in their variety. Astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore these remarkable recent discoveries: planets revolving around pulsars, planets made of diamond, planets that are mostly water, and numerous rogue planets wandering through the emptiness of space.
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5 out of 5 stars
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FINALLY, an Attention-Grabbing Planet Book!
- De aaron en 05-11-17
De: Michael Summers
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Genesis
- The Story of How Everything Began
- De: Guido Tonelli, Erica Segre - translator, Simon Carnell - translator
- Narrado por: Damian Lynch
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
A breakout best seller in Italy, now available for American listeners for the first time, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began is a short, humanistic tour of the origins of the universe, earth, and life - drawing on the latest discoveries in physics to explain the seven most significant moments in the creation of the cosmos.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This is soooo boring to listen to
- De A. Galer en 02-27-23
De: Guido Tonelli, y otros
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Coming of Age in the Milky Way
- De: Timothy Ferris
- Narrado por: Timothy Ferris
- Duración: 2 h y 44 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
Humans have long sought to comprehend the enormities of cosmic space and time. Here, best selling science writer Timothy Ferris tells the story of that quest. He interweaves the majestic themes of astronomy, physics, religion, and philosophy with fresh and lasting portraits of the men and women who created what has been called our society's most precious treasure - its conception of the universe at large.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Brief survey of discovery from Columbus to now
- De serine en 01-23-16
De: Timothy Ferris
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Knocking on Heaven's Door
- How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
- De: Lisa Randall
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 14 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 156
The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the world: its makeup, its evolution, and the fundamental forces that drive its operation. Knocking on Heaven's Door is an exhilarating and accessible overview of these developments and an impassioned argument for the significance of science. There could be no better guide than Lisa Randall.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too Political
- De Allan en 12-14-11
De: Lisa Randall
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When the Earth Had Two Moons
- Cannibal Planets, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets, Dreadful Orbits, and the Origins of the Night Sky
- De: Erik Asphaug
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
In 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 took the first photos of the far side of the Moon. Even in their poor resolution, the images stunned scientists: The far side is an enormous mountainous expanse, not the vast lava plains seen from Earth. Subsequent missions have confirmed this in much greater detail. How could this be, and what might it tell us about our own place in the universe? As it turns out, quite a lot. When the Earth Had Two Moons is an astonishing exploration of planet formation and the origins of life by one of the world’s most innovative planetary geologists.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poorly written, poorly narrated
- De RickyF en 05-11-23
De: Erik Asphaug
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The Island of Knowledge
- The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning
- De: Marcelo Gleiser
- Narrado por: William Neenan
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 552
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 486
How much can we know about the world? In this audiobook physicist Marcelo Gleiser traces our search for answers to the most fundamental questions of existence, the origin of the universe, the nature of reality, and the limits of knowledge. In so doing he reaches a provocative conclusion: Science, like religion, is fundamentally limited as a tool for understanding the world. As science and its philosophical interpretations advance, we face the unsettling recognition of how much we don't know.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Island of knowledge
- De Joshua Kring en 07-26-15
De: Marcelo Gleiser
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The Universe in the Rearview Mirror
- How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality
- De: Dave Goldberg
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 58
A physicist speeds across space, time, and everything in between showing that our elegant universe from the Higgs boson to antimatter to the most massive group of galaxies is shaped by hidden symmetries that have driven all our recent discoveries about the universe and all the ones to come. Why is the sky dark at night? Is it possible to build a shrink-ray gun? If there is antimatter, can there be antipeople? Why are past, present, and future our only options? Are time and space like a butterfly's wings? No one but Dave Goldberg, the coolest nerd physicist on the planet, could give a hyper-drive tour of the universe like this one.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good, but for whom?
- De Michael en 08-31-13
De: Dave Goldberg
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Our Mathematical Universe
- My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
- De: Max Tegmark
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 15 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,513
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,197
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,188
Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy, and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp his often mind-boggling theories, but he also shares with us some of the often surprising triumphs and disappointments that have shaped his life as a scientist.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!
- De Michael en 02-02-14
De: Max Tegmark
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The World According to Physics
- De: Jim Al-Khalili
- Narrado por: Jim Al-Khalili
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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Shining a light on the most profound insights revealed by modern physics, Jim Al-Khalili invites us all to understand what this crucially important science tells us about the universe and the nature of reality itself. Al-Khalili begins by introducing the fundamental concepts of space, time, energy, and matter, and then describes the three pillars of modern physics - quantum theory, relativity, and thermodynamics - showing how all three must come together if we are ever to have a full understanding of reality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent book
- De Anonymous User en 05-10-21
De: Jim Al-Khalili
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story of the science and history of earth’s magnetics
- De jesse en 10-13-20
De: Gillian Turner
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Black Hole
- How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved
- De: Marcia Bartusiak
- Narrado por: Randye Kaye
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The weirdly alien notion of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes - not even light - seemed to confound all logic. This engrossing audiobook tells the story of the fierce black hole debates and the contributions of Einstein, Hawking, and other leading thinkers who completely altered our view of the universe.
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Great into to black holes
- De serine en 01-23-16
De: Marcia Bartusiak
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Incompleteness
- The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
- De: Rebecca Goldstein
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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Probing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning—and brought him to the edge of madness.
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1 out of 5 stars
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drones on and on for hours!
- De Mark Pumphrey en 10-29-24
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Quantum Entanglement
- MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- De: Jed Brody
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 3 h y 34 m
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Quantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of common sense. (Think of Schrödinger's Cat, famously both dead and alive.) An especially rigorous form of quantum contradiction occurs in experiments with entangled particles. Our common assumption is that objects have properties whether or not anyone is observing them, and the measurement of one can't affect the other. Quantum entanglement rejects this assumption, offering impeccable reasoning and irrefutable evidence of the opposite. Is quantum entanglement mystical, or just mystifying?
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2 out of 5 stars
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gappy and devoid of rigor
- De Anonymous User en 05-03-20
De: Jed Brody
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Light of the Stars
- Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
- De: Adam Frank
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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Light of the Stars is science at the grandest of scales, and it tells a radically new story about what we are: one world in a universe awash in planets. Building on his widely discussed scientific papers and New York Times op-eds, astrophysicist Adam Frank shows that not only is it likely that alien civilizations have existed many times before, but also that many of them have driven their own worlds into dangerous eras of change.
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2 out of 5 stars
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First steps only
- De David en 11-25-18
De: Adam Frank
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The Big Mysteries of Human Evolution
- De: Dr. Elen Feuerriegel, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Dr. Elen Feurriegel
- Duración: 4 h y 28 m
- Grabación Original
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In 10 riveting episodes, paleoanthropologist Elen Feuerriegel takes you on an unrivaled tour of the human fossil record in search of the biological and behavioral underpinnings of our very “humanness”.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating lecture
- De M Hester en 04-15-22
De: Dr. Elen Feuerriegel, y otros
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Red Moon Rising
- Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
- De: Matthew Brzezinski
- Narrado por: Charles Stransky
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
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On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon. No bigger than a basketball, the tiny satellite was powered by a car battery. Yet, for all its simplicity, Sputnik stunned the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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awesome
- De Thomas en 06-25-09
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Chandra's Cosmos
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- wbiro
- 02-02-18
Well Written, Engrossing
"Ask me where I was during my commute to work today." "Where were you during your commute to work today?" "I was at the center of the galaxy..."
If every space telescope (and probe for that matter) had an associated book like this, you'll want to listen to each.
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- James Jackson
- 01-21-23
Very technical but well written!
It is really an insiders story written with an astronomer’s knowledge. I have reread it several times
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- lee jacobsen
- 06-17-20
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All as good as Cosmos with a great explanation of new science to me I am a sponge when it comes space sciences even though the math left me here on good old Earth. The reader was very good!
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- MGGGK9
- 12-08-23
Excellent
An utterly fantastic listen full of great science and in depth exploration of the cosmos. Only wish it was a little longer. Very well researched and the reader did a great job.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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