Rothman, Tony
Summary: "Tony Rothman offers a primer on the science of the big bang and the questions we still can't answer about the origins of the universe. Enlisting thoughtful analogies and a step-by-step approach, Rothman guides readers through dark matter, dark energy, quantum gravity, and other topics at-and beyond-the cutting edge of cosmology"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2022
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Summary: "In the past decade, Paul Halpern has brought readers three stunning histories of science -- Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cats, The Quantum Labyrinth, and Synchronicity -- that reveal the twisted, bizarre, and illuminating stories of physics' greatest thinkers and ideas. In Flashes of Creation, Halpern turns to what might be the biggest story of them all: the discovery of the origins of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 520.92 HALStahl, Asa
Summary: The Big Bang presents the mystery of how the universe began in a way we can all understand. Written by an astrophysicist, the pages describe what we know--and what we don't--in a compelling, accessible way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creston Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523.18 STABauer, Marion Dane
Summary: Before the universe was formed, before time and space existed, there was ... nothing. But then ... BANG! Stars caught fire and burned so long that they exploded, flinging stardust everywhere. And the ash of those stars turned into planets. Into our Earth. And into us. In a poetic text, Marion Dane Bauer takes readers from the trillionth of a second when our universe was born to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD Fiction Bauer 2018Hooper, Dan
Summary: Scientists in the past few decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But there remains a critical gap in our knowledge: we still know very little about what happened in the first seconds after the Big Bang. At the Edge of Time focuses on what we have recently learned and are still striving to understand about this most essential and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1 HOOFarrell, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.109 FARKaku, Michio
Summary: "Michio Kaku, renowned theoretical physicist and author of Hyperspace and The Future of Humanity, tells the story of the greatest quest in science. When Newton discovered the laws of motion and gravity, he unified the rules of heaven and earth. From thenon, physicists have been discovering new forces and incorporating them into ever-greater theories. But the major breakthroughs of the 20th...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.18 REESingh, Simon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.18 SINSummary: Is our universe a minor event in an endless series of universes (or multiverses)? Today, scientists generally agree on the big bang origin of the universe fifteen billion years ago. But as we track the expansion backward, toward that moment of seeming creation, the details begin to blur. In this program, Stephen Hawking explores the difficulties in presenting a scientific explanation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
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Summary: Many scientists of the early 20th century, including Albert Einstein, found the idea of an expanding universe with an abrupt origin unpalatable - viewing the universe as static and eternal. This program explores the history of our controversial and explosive beginnings. It seems all scientists agreed that the controversy could only be settled by direct and precise measurements. But the question...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
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Lerner, Eric J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Random House 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.18 LERSummary: This program explores how the colossal, mind-boggling forces of the early universe made it possible for habitable worlds to emerge. The clues begin with a race among scientists to capture lingering echoes of the big bang's ferocious energy in a microwave “whisper” from deep space. The race pits underdog astronomer Tony Readhead and his improvised detector in the high Andes against NASA...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004
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Summary: There is more to the universe than meets the eye--a lot more. In recent years, scientists have discovered that 95 percent of the contents of the cosmos are invisible to our current methods of direct detection. Yet something is holding galaxies and galaxy clusters together, and something else is causing space to fly apart. Scientists call these invisible components dark matter and dark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2007
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.1126 DARImpey, Chris.
Summary: An astronomer discusses the latest theories of the origin of matter and the possibility of parallel universes as he provides an intergalactic tour through a telescope that serves as a time machine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.18 IMPSummary: This Science Screen Report demonstrates how the Big Bang is thought to have occurred, and examines principles scientists use to support the theory. Beginning with the establishment of the concept in 1948, the program guides students through the detection of the Cosmic Background Radiation in the 1960s, which provided solid evidence of the Big Bang, to the ways in which the Hubble Space...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Ford, Adam.
Summary: Introduces the sun, stars, and other companions in our solar system, and explains light, gravity and the "big bang" theory of the creation of the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1981
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Should Japan abandon its interlocking alliance between business and government and reengineer its economy on the American model? In this program, syndicated columnist and author Ben Wattenberg moderates a debate with Eamonn Fingleton, author of the controversial Blindside; Yoichi Funabashi, of the Asahi Shimbun; and experts from The Brookings Institution, U.S. News & World Report, The New York...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Franz, Dennis
Summary: The daily lives and activities of police officers in New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NYPParliament (Musical group)
Contents: Aqua boogie (Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop) (9:22) -- Flash light (10:42) -- Agony of defeet (9:05) -- Ridin' high / (Parlet) (9:41) -- Oh I (7:11) -- Up for the down stroke (5:39) -- Testify (4:03) -- Black hole (theme) ; Big Bang Theory (11:46).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Casablanca 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES PARKukla, Lauren
Summary: Climb Aboard! Explore the beginning of the universe, the big bang theory, galaxies, and black holes! Learn about key astronomers and their contributions to space exploration! Examine the Hubble Space Telescope and the Large Hadron Collider! See an infographic showing a timeline of the universe! Did You Know? facts and a Guidebook of black holes complete your journey. -- Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 523 KUKSummary: This program focuses on efforts to complete Einstein's quest for a grand unifying theory that will explain all of the forces of nature in the same terms. Will string theory provide the key? Mathematical physicist Nathan Seiberg explains his research on string theory in various dimensions and on particle physics; Edward Witten, named one of the 25 most influential Americans by Time magazine,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Alexie, Sherman
Summary: As a 41-year-old man confronts his own mortality in this collection's title story, he recalls his Spokane Indian father's chilling death from alcoholism and diabetes. Another tale features an eccentric salesman pursuing a married woman from airport to airport. And then there's the film editor who sees nothing wrong with altering footage to fit preconceived views-- until he himself becomes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009