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These are just some of the questions considered in the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by the world renowned physicist - generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. It begins by reviewing the great theories of the cosmos from Newton to Einstein, before delving into the secrets which still lie at the heart of space and time, from the Big Bang to black holes, via spiral galaxies and strong theory. To this day A Brief History of Time remains a staple of the scientific canon, and its succinct and clear language continues to introduce millions to the universe and its wonders.

WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024ONE OF THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW SCIENTIST BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF THE YEARA HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST RELATED WORK 2024THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERTHE #2 MOST GIFTED BOOK IN THE SOLAR SYSTEMFrom the bestselling authors of Soonish, a brilliant and hilarious off-world investigation into space settlementEarth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - no climate change, no war, no Twitter - beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith set out to write the essential guide to a glorious future of space settlements, but after years of original research, and interviews with leading space scientists, engineers and legal experts, they aren't so sure it's a good idea. Space tech and space business are progressing fast, but we lack the deep knowledge needed to have space-kids, build space-farms and create space nations in a way that doesn't spark conflict back home. In a world hurtling toward human expansion into space, A City on Mars investigates whether the dream of new worlds won't create a nightmare, both for settlers and the people they leave behind.With deep expertise, a winning sense of humour and art from the beloved creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, the Weinersmiths investigate perhaps the biggest questions humanity will ever ask itself - whether and how to become multiplanetary.

A Crack in Everything is the story of how black holes came in from the cold and took cosmic centre stage As a journalist Marcus Chown interviews many of the scientists who made the key discoveries and as a former physicist he translates the most esoteric of science into everyday language The result is a uniquely engaging page turner that tells one of the great untold stories in modern science What is space What is time Where did the universe come from The answers to mankind s most enduring questions may lie in science s greatest enigma black holes A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing not even light can escape This can occur when a star approaches the end of its life Unable to generate enough heat to maintain its outer layers it shrinks catastrophically down to an infinitely dense point When this phenomenon was first proposed in 1916 it defied scientific understanding so much that Albert Einstein dismissed it as too ridiculous to be true But scientists have since proven otherwise In 1971 Paul Murdin and Louise Webster discovered the first black hole Cygnus X 1 Later in the 1990s astronomers found that not only do black holes exist supermassive black holes lie at the heart of almost every galaxy It would

En A hombros de gigantes, el gran físico teórico Stephen Hawking nos explica cómo los grandes hombres de ciencia como Copérnico, Galileo, Kepler, Newton y Einstein construyeron sus teorías a partir de las geniales contribuciones de sus predecesores y como nos han legado, en conjunto, un tesoro de conocimientos cientificos que nadie puede ignorar. En este libro impar se reunen por primera vez en la historia de la edicion las cinco mayores obras de la Fisica y la Astronomia precedidas por breves ensayos de Stephen Hawking en los que explica quienes fueron los genios que las escribieron, los grandes retos que tuvieron que afrontar (el compromiso de Copernico con la verdad pese a su condicion de sacerdote; el proceso inquisitorial que sufrio Galileo; las desgracias familiares y financieras de Kepler, las apasionadas trifulcas de Newton, los humildes origenes de Einstein...) y su perenne contribucion a la cultura universal. Hallamos en el, en efecto, escritos originales de Albert Einstein publicados por primera vez en El principio de relatividad y los libros siguientes: Sobre las revoluciones de las esferas celestiales, de Nicolas Copernico; Dialogos sobre las dos ciencias, de Galileo Galilei; el libro quinto de Armonias del mundo, de Johannes Kepler y los Principia de Isaac Newton.

¿Qué leyes naturales gobiernan los cielos? ¿Puede decirse que el Universo tiene un centro? ¿Dónde se sitúa la tierra en relación con ese centro? ¿Cómo se mueven los planetas? ¿Qué los mantiene en órbita? Miles de años llevan los seres humanos tratando de responder a estas preguntas.En A hombros de gigantes, el gran fisico teorico Stephen Hawking nos explica como los grandes hombres de ciencia como Copernico, Galileo, Kepler, Newton y Einstein construyeron sus teorias a partir de las geniales contribuciones de sus predecesores y como nos han legado, en conjunto, un tesoro de conocimientos cientificos que nadie puede ignorar. En este libro impar se reunen por primera vez en la historia de la edicion las cinco mayores obras de la Fisica y la Astronomia precedidas por breves ensayos de Stephen Hawking en los que explica quienes fueron los genios que las escribieron, los grandes retos que tuvieron que afrontar (el compromiso de Copernico con la verdad pese a su condicion de sacerdote; el proceso inquisitorial que sufrio Galileo; las desgracias familiares y financieras de Kepler, las apasionadas trifulcas de Newton, los humildes origenes de Einstein...) y su perenne contribucion a la cultura universal. Hallamos en el, en efecto, escritos originales de Albert Einstein publicados por primera vez en El principio de relatividad y los libros siguientes: Sobre las revoluciones de las esferas celestiales, de Nicolas Copernico; Dialogos sobre las dos ciencias, de Galileo Galilei; el libro quinto de Armonias del mundo, de Johannes Kepler y los Principia de Isaac Newton.

Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home, he can''t contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us.Bill Bryson''s challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn''t some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It''s not so much about what we know, as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth, or what a black hole is, or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out?On his travels through time and space, he encounters a splendid collection of astonishingly eccentric, competitive, obsessive and foolish scientists, like the painfully shy Henry Cavendish who worked out many conundrums like how much the Earth weighed, but never bothered to tell anybody about many of his findings. In the company of such extraordinary people, Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.

In the bestselling, prize-winning "A Short History of Nearly Everything", Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the world of science both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe. Now, in this glorious new illustrated edition, everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization is even more vividly brought to life with stunning full-colour photographs, drawings, portraits, and cartoons.

The incomparable Bill Bryson travels through time and space to introduce us to the world, the universe and everything in this groundbreaking book, the best selling popular science book of the 21st century.Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can''t contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill Bryson''s challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us, like geology, chemistry and particle physics, and see if there isn''t some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science.The ultimate eye-opening journey through time and space, A Short History of Nearly Everything is the biggest-selling popular science book of the 21st century, and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.

A Terra é un océano esférico. A pouca terra firme que queda está poboada por dous bandos que manteñen unha tensión voraz. O medo é tan abundante como a auga salgada. O único que pode evitar a desaparicion da humanidade e a exploracion e terrificacion doutros planetas. Pero antes debe pasarse pola proba da supervivencia na Lua: o silencio, o descoñecido, a soidade.Loia chega ao Mar de Aluminio armada coa sua curiosidade e a sua capacidade para amar, arrastrando un pasado tenebroso e un futuro incerto. Os xemelgos que a acollen deberan preparala para unha nova realidade: unha verdade ditada por un Senado todopoderoso.

For millennia, shamans and philosophers, believers and nonbelievers, artists and scientists have tried to make sense of our existence by suggesting that everything is connected, that a mysterious Oneness binds us to everything else. People go to temples, churches, mosques, and synagogues to pray to their divine incarnation of Oneness. Following a surprisingly similar notion, scientists have long asserted that under Nature's apparent complexity there is a simpler underlying reality. In its modern incarnation, this Theory of Everything would unite the physical laws governing very large bodies (Einstein's theory of relativity) and those governing tiny ones (quantum mechanics) into a single framework. But despite the brave efforts of many powerful minds, the Theory of Everything remains elusive. It turns out that the universe is not elegant. It is gloriously messy. Overturning more than twenty-five centuries of scientific thought, award-winning physicist Marcelo Gleiser argues that this quest for a Theory of Everything is fundamentally misguided, and he explains the volcanic implications this ideological shift has for humankind. All the evidence points to a scenario in which everything emerges from fundamental imperfections, primordial asymmetries in matter and time, cataclysmic accidents in Earth's early life, and duplication errors in the genetic code. Imbalance spurs creation. Without asymmetries and imperfections, the universe would be filled with nothing but smooth radiation. A Tear at the Edge of Creation calls for nothing less than a new "humancentrism" to reflect our position in the universal order. All life, but intelligent life in particular, is a rare and precious accident. Our presence here has no meaning outside of itself, but it does have meaning. The unplanned complexity of humankind is all the more beautiful for its improbability. It's time for science to let go of the old aesthetic that labels perfection beautiful and holds that "beauty is truth." It's time to look at the evidence without centuries of monotheistic baggage. In this lucid, down-to-earth narrative, Gleiser walks us through the basic and cutting-edge science that fueled his own transformation from unifier to doubter—a fascinating scientific quest that led him to a new understanding of what it is to be human.

Un verdadero tirón de orejas culinario, escrito con naturalidad, humor y desparpajo. Mario Sánchez pone a nuestra disposición toda su experiencia y conocimiento para hablarnos de aquello que hacemos mal en casa en relacion con los alimentos, desde su conservacion hasta su manipulado y coccion. Un libro que conjuga a la perfeccion el rigor cientifico con el tono confidente de un amigo, y que es capaz de quitarnos los miedos y desmontar bulos para darnos informacion comprensible y sentido comun.

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Els nostres cervells són les màquines més complexes conegudes per la humanitat, però tenen un taló d'Aquil·les: les mateixes molècules que ens permeten existir també poden sabotejar les nostres ments

Internationally renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss offers provocative revelatory answers to the biggest philosophical questions Where did our universe come from Why does anything exist And how is it all going to end Why is there something rather than nothing is the question atheists and scientists are always asked and until now there has not been a satisfying scientific answer Today exciting scientific advances provide new insight into this cosmological mystery not only cansomething arise from nothing but something willalwaysarise from nothing A mind bending trip back to the beginning of the beginning A Universe from Nothingauthoritatively presents the most recent evidence that explains how our universe evolved and the implications for how it s going to end It will provoke challenge and delight readers to look at the most basic underpinnings of existence in a whole new way In the words of Richard Dawkins this could potentially be the most important scientific book since Darwin s On the Origin of Species

Pere Estupinyà vuelve a demostrar que la ciencia, bien explicada, no solo resulta interesantísima, sino que es la herramienta fundamental para mejorar el mundo y nuestra vida. Este libro es una invit

En las últimas décadas se ha producido una revolución en las ciencias, con la explosión de las tecnologías genómicas, física cuántica, cambio climático o desarrollos tecnológicos en inteligencia artificial, redes o telecomunicaciones. Las artes han seguido un camino parecido, reflejando el mundo desde diferentes perspectivas y tecnicas y aplicando, en muchos casos, la ciencia a la hora de crear.Este catalogo contiene la exposicion "Arte y ciencia del siglo XXI". Organizada por el Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), en el año de su 250 aniversario, y la Fundacion Arcilla, la exposicion busca recuperar esa relacion, uniendo en un mismo espacio el arte figurativo (pinturas y esculturas, muchas de ellas creadas expresamente para la exposicion) y una gran parte de la ciencia que se desarrolla en el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC).