Author: Chet Raymo Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0802714943 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 14
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A noted science writer and author of The Path offers an illuminating study of the interconnections among science, faith, psychology, and the arts in terms of the evolution of the human understanding of space and time as he walks along the Prime Meridian, the line of zero longitude and the standard for world maps and clocks, from Brighton to the North Sea. 20,000 first printing.
Author: C.D. Smith Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1490791817 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 236
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The possibility of travel forward and backward through space-time intrigues a vast number of people. I find it curious that many believe that Back to the Future is really possible and eventually someone will implement a process/machine to do exactly that. I, on the other hand, believe that time travel through space-time is impossible and in this book, I put forward, what I consider to be, a valid proof. The expansion of the universe and ultimately the Heat Death of the Universe means that energy is continuously lost and is not recoverable. To travel through space-time it is necessary to remove energy from the universe to move forward in time or add energy to the universe to move backward in time and that is, therefore, impossible. My purpose in writing this book is to put forward a paradigm where travel in time-space, not through space-time, is possible. Where movement about in three-dimensional space does not require energy to be either removed from or added to, the universe. Professor Da-veed’s accidental discovery of this paradigm forces him to take measures to avoid being taken into custody by the FBI, DHS, and NSA because he fears that the government would weaponize ZTAD and use it to dominate other countries.
Author: Chris Hadfield Publisher: Little, Brown ISBN: 0316253049 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 295
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Travel to space and back with astronaut Chris Hadfield's "enthralling" bestseller as your eye-opening guide (Slate). Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft. The secret to Col. Hadfield's success-and survival-is an unconventional philosophy he learned at NASA: prepare for the worst- and enjoy every moment of it. In An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Col. Hadfield takes readers deep into his years of training and space exploration to show how to make the impossible possible. Through eye-opening, entertaining stories filled with the adrenaline of launch, the mesmerizing wonder of spacewalks, and the measured, calm responses mandated by crises, he explains how conventional wisdom can get in the way of achievement — and happiness. His own extraordinary education in space has taught him some counterintuitive lessons: don't visualize success, do care what others think, and always sweat the small stuff. You might never be able to build a robot, pilot a spacecraft, make a music video or perform basic surgery in zero gravity like Col. Hadfield. But his vivid and refreshing insights will teach you how to think like an astronaut, and will change, completely, the way you view life on Earth — especially your own. "Hadfield proves himself to be not only a fierce explorer of the universe, but also a deeply thoughtful explorer of the human condition." —Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
Author: Raymond Yeh Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 298
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Praise for Zero Time(TM) "Zero Time provides valuable insight into the critical success factors of the digital age: total customer experience, velocity, and operational efficiency-all components of Dell's direct model." -Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO, Dell Computer Corporation "Zero Time will become a secular 'bible' for the twenty-first century-speed in 'closing the gaps' is essential, not only for success but for survival."-Herbert D. Kelleher, Chairman, President, and CEO, Southwest Airlines Co. "With this publication, the authors continue to make significant contributions to the world of business, and we are deeply grateful for their remarkable insight and vision."-William H. Cunningham, Chancellor, The University of Texas System "Zero Time contains some of the most powerful and creative ways of thinking about learning systems, customer focus and delight, trusting corporate cultures, and organizational agility that I have ever seen."-David M. Darst, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter "Zero Time boldly identifies the point at which the much-noticed innovations of companies as different as FedEx, Dell Computer, General Electric, and Cisco will converge as a dramatic new model for American business . . . From the pile of new volumes on corporate change, this is the one to select for your strongest essential insight." -Barry Munitz, President and CEO The J. Paul Getty Trust "The business issues associated in moving at Internet speed to serve a customer base that desires instant gratification are clearly stated [in Zero Time] . . . The corporations that put these recommendations in place will be the winners in the electronic business age."-Ralph J. Szygenda, Group Vice President and CIO, General Motors Corporation "Zero Time is the executive's guide to the new millennium! Yeh, Pearlson, and Kozmetsky have distilled the essence of the chaotic dynamics of today's paradigm-busting business world into a coherent set of principles and guidelines for success."-Alan B. Salisbury, PhD, Past President Learning Tree International
Author: Frank Lekanne Deprez Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers ISBN: 1609941888 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 242
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"'Zero Space' defines a business model in which an organization achieves success without owning assets or needing management. Through eight new organizational principles the authors illustrate how 'zero-mindedness' is essential for the new economy"--Resource description page.
Author: Günter Nimtz Publisher: Wiley-VCH ISBN: 9783527407354 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 166
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This English edition of a successful, proven title provides a sound scientific background, while allowing a popular presentation of the physics behind the strange and mysterious tunneling process. Based on his groundbreaking experiments, Prof Nimtz places the topic in a broader context by showing connections with other branches of physics. He and the team of authors begin by introducing such fundamental concepts as space and time and continue with tunneling phenomena from optics, nuclear and solid state physics. Avoiding mathematical equations and definitions altogether, they explain step-by-step the prerequisites for the tunnel effect to function, from classical mechanics to quantum mechanics, right up to modern topics, such as wormholes and space travel ? la Star Trek. With a foreword by astronaut Ulrich Walter, science team member of the D-2 Space Shuttle Mission.
Author: Charles Seife Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101199601 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 273
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Popular math at its most entertaining and enlightening. "Zero is really something"-Washington Post A New York Times Notable Book. The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now it threatens the foundations of modern physics. For centuries the power of zero savored of the demonic; once harnessed, it became the most important tool in mathematics. For zero, infinity's twin, is not like other numbers. It is both nothing and everything. In Zero, Science Journalist Charles Seife follows this innocent-looking number from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe, its rise and transcendence in the West, and its ever-present threat to modern physics. Here are the legendary thinkers—from Pythagoras to Newton to Heisenberg, from the Kabalists to today's astrophysicists—who have tried to understand it and whose clashes shook the foundations of philosophy, science, mathematics, and religion. Zero has pitted East against West and faith against reason, and its intransigence persists in the dark core of a black hole and the brilliant flash of the Big Bang. Today, zero lies at the heart of one of the biggest scientific controversies of all time: the quest for a theory of everything.
Author: Gregg Kanon Publisher: Virtual Bookworm.Com Pub Incorporated ISBN: 9781589399938 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 156
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Are space and time an illusion? Are parallel universes an indisputable fact? Does the "new physics" suggest that our sense of "reality" is seriously flawed, existing only in our mind? Are we, in fact, "Approaching Zero Time,"a point at which the "past," "present" and "future" will cease to exist, or exist all at once? "Approaching Zero Time" explores the emerging pattern of activity in human affairs that curiously mimics observations being made by physicists in controlled experiments carried out in laboratories and particle accelerators. "Spooky action," as described by Einstein, takes the form of spontaneous invisibility/appearances, "shadow people," anomalistic plasma displays and other bizarre events being observed worldwide by sane, sober individuals from all walks of life. "Approaching Zero Time" contains interviews with physicists from around the world and firsthand accounts of "spooky action" from the heartland. Interviews include comments and observations that provide the final proof of our approach to Zero Time.
Author: Frank Arntzenius Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0198705913 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 297
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Frank Arntzenius presents a series of radical ideas about the structure of space and time, and establishes a new metaphysical position which holds that the fundamental structure of the physical world is purely geometrical structure. He argues that we should broaden our conceptual horizons and accept that spaces other than spacetime may exist.
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