How did a single "genesis event" create billions of galaxies, black holes, stars and planets? How did atoms assemble -- here on earth, and perhaps on other worlds -- into living beings intricate enoug…
Shelve Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe
For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superbly-w…
Shelve Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
No twentieth-century American scientist is better known to a wider spectrum of people than Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988)—physicist, teacher, author, and cultural icon. His autobiographies and biograp…
Shelve Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
The universe has many secrets. It may hide additional dimensions of space other than the familier three we recognize. There might even be another universe adjacent to ours, invisible and unattainable …
Shelve Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
In the Messenger Lectures, originally delivered at Cornell University & recorded for TV by the BBC, Feynman offers an overview of selected physical laws & gathers their common features into one broad …
An elegant, witty, and engaging exploration of the riddle of time, which examines the consequences of Einstein's theory of relativity and offers startling suggestions about what recent research may re…
Shelve About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution
Roger Penrose, one of the most accomplished scientists of our time, presents the only comprehensive and comprehensible account of the physics of the universe. From the very first attempts by the Greek…
Shelve The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us on a dizzying ride to explore black holes and time machines, multidimensional space and, most tantal…
Shelve Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
“Unusually well written and informative…Weinberg is one of the world's most creative theoretical phsyicists.” —Martin Gardner, Washington Post Book World
In Dreams of a Final Theory, Stephen Weinberg, t…
Shelve Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did, and in doing so put at risk everything we know ab…
Shelve The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses i…
Are there other dimensions beyond those of our everyday experience? Are there gateways to parallel universes? What happened before the first day of Creation? These types of questions are at the center…
Shelve Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
In On the Shoulders of Giants, Stephen Hawking brings together the greatest works by Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton and Einstein, showing how their pioneering discoveries changed the way we see t…
Shelve On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy
NY Times bestseller. 13 extraordinary essays shed new light on the mysteries of the universe & on one of the most brilliant thinkers of our time. In his phenomenal bestseller A Brief History of Time, S…
Shelve Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
Time is an illusion. Although the laws of physics create a powerful impression that time is flowing, in fact there are only timeless `nows'. In The End of Time, the British theoretical physicist Julia…
Shelve The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Our Understanding of the Universe
In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his unerringly logical …
Shelve Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
A rising star in theoretical physics offers his awesome vision of our universe and beyond, all beginning with a simple question: Why does time move forward?
Time moves forward, not backward, everyone …
Shelve From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
This brilliantly written book unlocks the astounding implications of Einstein's revolutionary theories on the nature of science, time & motion. It far surpasses any previous explanation of Relativity …
