Author: Surendra VermaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A simple, witty and entertaining introduction to 100 intriguing scientific ideas.
Author: Verma Surendra101 Insights Into Your Mind
Author: Surendra VermaPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781974387151
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Have you ever wondered why a 'hunch' has turned out to be correct, why we gossip so much, whether daydreaming is good for us, why you have felt familiar in a place you have never been before or how you can guide your unconscious mind? 101 Insights into Your Mind presents 101 thought-provoking scientific insights into our brain's processes through a series of anecdotes and easy-to-understand scientific account. From the trivial to the mind-boggling, it is a revealing insight into the way our minds work.
Author: B. S. KesavanOn What We Know We Don't Know
Author: Sylvain BrombergerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226075402
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In this collection of essays, Bromberger explores the centrality of questions and predicaments they create in scientific research. He discusses the nature of explanation, theory, and the foundations of linguistics.
Author: Hugh ChisholmThe Mystery of the Tunguska Fireball
Author: Surendra VermaPublisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 184046447X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
On 30 June 1908 a mysterious fireball exploded in the Siberian sky and flattened 2,000 square kilometres of the remote Tunguska forest. As no crater and no material from outer space were ever found, a meteorite could not have caused the Tunguska explosion. So what did? This 'grand dame of science mysteries' soon turns 100 but continues to seduce scientists and charlatans alike, all hoping to explain what caused the explosion. The scientists' suspects include a comet, an asteroid, a mini black hole, a rock of antimatter, a mirror matter asteroid, and a methane gas blast from below. X-files-type explanations include an alien spacecraft, a laser beam fired by extraterrestrials in an attempt to communicate with the earthlings, and an early experiment in nuclear physics which got out of hand. Numerous websites, conspiracy theories and sensational TV documentaries on the Fireball abound. In a fast-moving and non-technical narrative The Tunguska Fireball discusses all theories and then analyses the evidence to point an accusing finger at a prime suspect.
Author: Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript'
Author: Rick Anthony FurtakPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139491687
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Søren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript has provoked a lively variety of divergent interpretations for a century and a half. It has been both celebrated and condemned as the chief inspiration for twentieth-century existential thought, as a subversive parody of philosophical argument, as a critique of mass society, as a forerunner of phenomenology and of postmodern relativism, and as an appeal for a renewal of religious commitment. These 2010 essays written by international Kierkegaard scholars offer a plurality of critical approaches to this fundamental text of existential philosophy. They cover hotly debated topics such as the tension between the Socratic-philosophical and the Christian-religious; the identity and personality of Kierkegaard's pseudonym 'Johannes Climacus'; his conceptions of paradoxical faith and of passionate understanding; his relation to his contemporaries and to some of his more distant predecessors; and, last but not least, his pertinence to our present-day concerns.
Farewell to Reality
Author: Jim BaggottPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453299149
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
From acclaimed science author Jim Baggot, a lively, provocative, and “intellectually gratifying” critique of modern theoretical physics (The Economist). Where does one draw the line between solid science and fairy-tale physics? Jim Baggott argues that there is no observational or experimental evidence for many of the ideas of modern theoretical physics: super-symmetric particles, super strings, the multiverse, the holographic principle, or the anthropic cosmological principle. Unafraid to challenge prominent theorists, Baggott offers engaging portraits of many central figures of modern physics, including Stephen Hawking, Paul Davies, John D. Barrow, Brian Greene, and Leonard Susskind. Informed, comprehensive, and balanced, Farewell to Reality discusses the latest ideas about the nature of physical reality while clearly distinguishing between fact and fantasy, providing essential and entertaining reading for everyone interested in what we know and don’t know about the nature of the universe and reality itself.
