Mirror Earth
The Search for Our Planet's Twin
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In the mid-1990s, astronomers made history when they detected three planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way. The planets were nothing like Earth, however: They were giant gas balls like Jupiter or Saturn. More than 500 planets have been found since then, yet none of them could support life. Now, armed with more powerful technology, planet hunters are racing to find a true twin of Earth. Science writer Michael Lemonick has unique access to these exoplaneteers, as they call themselves, and Mirror Earth unveils their passionate quest. Geoff Marcy, at the University of California, Berkeley, is the world's most successful planet hunter, having found two of the first three extra-solar planets. Bill Borucki, at the NASA Ames Research Center, struggled for more than a decade to launch the Kepler mission - the only planet finder, human or machine, to beat Marcy's record. David Charbonneau, at Harvard, realized that Earths would be much easier to find if he looked at tiny stars called M-dwarfs rather than stars like the Sun - and that he could use backyard telescopes to find them! Unlike those in other races, the competing scientists actually consult and cooperate with one another. But only one will be the first to find Earth's twin. Mirror Earth is poised narrate this historic event as the discovery is made.
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- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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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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The Day We Found the Universe
- De: Marcia Bartusiak
- Narrado por: Erik Synnestvedt
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
From one of our most acclaimed science writers: a dramatic narrative of the discovery of the true nature and startling size of the universe, delving back past the moment of revelation to trace the decades of work--by a select group of scientists--that made it possible.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worth the Effort
- De Roy en 08-13-09
De: Marcia Bartusiak
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Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work
- De: Kitty Ferguson
- Narrado por: Carole Boyd
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 52
Stephen Hawking is one of the most remarkable figures of our time, a Cambridge genius who has earned international celebrity as a brilliant theoretical physicist and become an inspiration and revelation to those who have witnessed his courageous triumph over disability. This is Hawking's life story by Kitty Ferguson, who has had special help from Hawking himself and his close associates and who has a gift for translating the language of theoretical physics for non-scientists.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not What it Appears
- De Heizenberg en 04-04-12
De: Kitty Ferguson
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Five Billion Years of Solitude
- The Search for Life Among the Stars
- De: Lee Billings
- Narrado por: Lee Billings
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 50
Since its formation nearly five billion years ago, our planet has been the sole living world in a vast and silent universe. Now, Earth's isolation is coming to an end. Over the past two decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of "exoplanets" orbiting other stars, including some that could be similar to our own world. Studying those distant planets for signs of life will be crucial to understanding life's intricate mysteries right here on Earth. In a firsthand account of this unfolding revolution, Lee Billings draws on interviews with top researchers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bloated
- De Dr A en 01-09-14
De: Lee Billings
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Space Chronicles
- Facing the Ultimate Frontier
- De: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 10 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 763
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 703
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 697
With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tyson - one of our foremost thinkers on all things space - illuminates the past, present, and future of space exploration and brilliantly reminds us why NASA matters now as much as ever. As Tyson reveals, exploring the space frontier can profoundly enrich many aspects of our daily lives, from education systems and the economy to national security and morale.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The least helpful review of Space Chronicles.
- De Joshua Kring en 06-17-15
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The Second Kind of Impossible
- The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter
- De: Paul J. Steinhardt
- Narrado por: Peter Larkin
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 231
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 204
When leading Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt began working in the 1980s, scientists thought they knew all the conceivable forms of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible is the story of Steinhardt’s 35-year-long quest to challenge conventional wisdom. It begins with a curious geometric pattern that inspires two theoretical physicists to propose a radically new type of matter - one that raises the possibility of new materials with never-before-seen properties but that violates laws set in stone for centuries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In anticipation of low review marks...
- De James S. en 05-14-19
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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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Sun in a Bottle
- The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
- De: Charles Seife
- Narrado por: Bill Weideman
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 134
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 74
For the past 50 years, governments and research teams have tried to bottle the sun with lasers, magnets, sound waves, and particle beams, struggling to harness the power of fusion. Again and again, they have failed, disgracing generations of scientists. Throughout this fascinating journey, Charles Seife introduces us to the daring geniuses, villains, and victims of fusion science.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Focused on the Lone Wolves
- De Robert Goldston en 11-14-08
De: Charles Seife
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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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How to Speak Science
- Gravity, Relativity, and Other Ideas That Were Crazy Until Proven Brilliant
- De: Bruce Benamran, Stephanie Delozier Strobel
- Narrado por: Braden Wright
- Duración: 13 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 193
As smartphones, supercomputers, supercolliders, and AI propel us into an ever more unfamiliar future, How to Speak Science takes us on a rollicking historical tour of the greatest discoveries and ideas that make today's cutting-edge technologies possible. Wanting everyone to be able to "speak" science, YouTube science guru Bruce Benamran explains - as accessibly and wittily as in his acclaimed videos - the fundamental ideas of the physical world: matter, life, the solar system, light, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, special and general relativity, and much more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wowzers!
- De Ralph Temblador en 02-15-21
De: Bruce Benamran, 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
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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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The Universe in the Rearview Mirror
- How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality
- De: Dave Goldberg
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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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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Paradox
- The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
- De: Jim Al-Khalili
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
Throughout history, scientists have come up with theories and ideas that just don't seem to make sense. These we call paradoxes. The paradoxes Al-Khalili offers are drawn chiefly from physics and astronomy and represent those that have stumped some of the finest minds. With elegant explanations that bring the listener inside the mind of those who've developed them, Al-Khalili helps us to see that, in fact, paradoxes can be solved if seen from the right angle.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Almost Useless
- De Michael en 06-19-19
De: Jim Al-Khalili
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
- De: Bill Bryson
- Narrado por: Richard Matthews
- Duración: 18 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 28,052
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21,315
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 21,212
Bill Bryson has been an enormously popular author both for his travel books and for his books on the English language. Now, this beloved comic genius turns his attention to science. Although he doesn't know anything about the subject (at first), he is eager to learn, and takes information that he gets from the world's leading experts and explains it to us in a way that makes it exciting and relevant.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Only Book I reread imediatley after reading
- De Andrew en 11-09-09
De: Bill Bryson
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The Infinity Puzzle
- Quantum Field Theory and the Hunt for an Orderly Universe
- De: Frank Close
- Narrado por: Jonathan Cowley
- Duración: 12 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 95
The second half of the 20th century witnessed a scientific gold rush as physicists raced to chart the inner workings of the atom. The stakes were high, the questions were big, and there were Nobel Prizes and everlasting glory to be won. Many mysteries of the atom came unraveled, but one remained intractable-what Frank Close calls the "Infinity Puzzle."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Succinct exposition
- De Gary en 06-26-12
De: Frank Close
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13 Things That Don't Make Sense
- The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
- De: Michael Brooks
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 8 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,565
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,560
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,564
Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense. Science's best-kept secret is that there are experimental results and reliable data that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. If history is any precedent, we should look to today's inexplicable results to forecast the future of science. Michael Brooks heads to the scientific frontier to meet 13 modern-day anomalies and discover tomorrow's breakthroughs.
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4 out of 5 stars
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10 interesting chapters-read epiloge first
- De Stephen en 06-10-09
De: Michael Brooks
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