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Chicago [etc.] : Encyclopaedia britannica, c1986
Chicago [etc.] : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1986
Springfield, MA : Merriam-Webster, 1993
Melville, New York : American Institute of Physics, ©2007
Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014
Abstract/Sommario: The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of cosmic acceleration due to dark energy, a discovery that is all the more perplexing as nobody knows what dark energy actually is. We put the modern concept of cosmological vacuum energy into historical context and show how it grew out of disparate roots in quantum mechanics (zero-point energy) and relativity theory (the cosmological constant, Einstein's “greatest blunder”). These two influences have remained strangely alo ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016
Abstract/Sommario: After addressing strange cosmological hypotheses in Weird Universe, David Seargent tackles the no-less bizarre theories closer to home. Alternate views on the Solar System's formation, comet composition, and the evolution of life on Earth are only some of the topics he addresses in this new work. Although these ideas exist on the fringe of mainstream astronomy, they can still shed light on the origins of life and the evolution of the planets. Continuing the author's series of books pop ...; [Leggi tutto...]
New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint : Springer, 2011
Abstract/Sommario: Preface -- Our Weird Moon -- Odd and Interesting Happenings Near the Sun -- Planetary Weirdness -- Weird Meteors -- Strange and Star-like Objects -- Moving Mysteries and Wandering Stars -- Facts, Fallacies, Unusual Observations and Other Miscellaneous Gleanings -- Appendix 1: The Danjon Scale of Lunar Eclipse Brightness -- Appendix 2: Lunar Eclipses 2011 - 2050 -- Appendix III: Solar Eclipses 2011 - 2030 -- Appendix IV: Transits of Mercury 2016 - 2100 -- Index. - You go out for a night ...; [Leggi tutto...]