Astrophysics


Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
A Brief History of Time
Cosmos
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
The Universe in a Nutshell
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
The Grand Design
The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics
An Introduction to Modern Stellar Astrophysics by Dale A. OstlieAn Introduction to Modern Astrophysics by Bradley W. CarrollGravitation and Cosmology by Steven WeinbergIntroduction to Cosmology by Barbara RydenCosmology by Steven Weinberg
Astrophysics (MMath)
11 books — 6 voters
Amelia, the Venutons and the Golden Cage by Evonne BlanchardAmelia, the Moochins and the Sapphire Palace by Evonne BlanchardCosmos by Carl SaganThe Right Stuff by Tom WolfeThe Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
A Space.com Reading List
23 books — 16 voters

Introduction to Electrodynamics by David J. GriffithsThe Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. FeynmanIntroduction to Quantum Mechanics by David J. GriffithsClassical Mechanics by Charles P. Poole Jr.Relativity by Albert Einstein
Not Pop-Science - Physics
130 books — 32 voters
Life Revisited by Laurent  GrenierNineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness by Patrick  HouseA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaStiff by Mary Roach
Sciency Books For Every Curious Mind
90 books — 51 voters


Abhijit Naskar
God of The Blue Rock (Sonnet) God of the gaps cannot be God of the world, and God of the world should not be abused as god of the gaps. As puny apes on an insignificant blue rock in a tiny backwater of the galaxy, we know nothing about the origin of the universe, but I can tell you one thing for a fact of earth biology, it has nothing to do with the anthropomorphic god of all the scriptures. If all it takes is a couple of burning bushes, magic tricks and fairytales to quench your quest for tr ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

Hugh Ross
Like the Great Oxidation Event, the Great Unconformity injected an enormous quantity of oxygen into the atmosphere through a massive and efficient subduction of organic carbon into Earth's mantle. When this event occurred, the oxygen quantity in Earth's atmosphere jumped from 1% or less up to 8%. Just before the time of the Cambrian explosion 543 million years ago, another major continental erosion event coupled with oceanic sediment subduction led to a jump in the atmosphere oxygen level from 8 ...more
Hugh Ross, Designed to the Core

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