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A brief welcome to the universe : a pocket-sized tour
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ISBN: 0691223610 9780691223612 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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A pocket-style edition distilled from the New York Times bestsellerAwaiting you in this breezy book is a whirlwind tour through the cosmos-a journey of exploration to other planets, stars, and galaxies, and from black holes to time loops. With acclaimed astrophysicists Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott at your side, here you will find a brief and yet breathtaking introduction to the universe, which will help you in your quest to understand how the cosmos actually works.A Brief Welcome to the Universe propels you from our home solar system to the outermost frontiers of space, building your cosmic insight and perspective through a marvelously entertaining narrative. How do stars live and die? What are the prospects of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe? How did the universe begin? Why is it expanding and accelerating in the process? Is our universe alone or part of an infinite multiverse? Exploring these and many other questions, this pocket-friendly book is your passport into the wonders of our evolving cosmos.

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Astrophysics --- Cosmology --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Physics --- Accelerating expansion of the universe. --- Accretion (astrophysics). --- Alpha particle. --- Andromeda Galaxy. --- Angular diameter. --- Astrobiology. --- Astrophysics. --- Atomic nucleus. --- Barred spiral galaxy. --- Big Bang. --- Calculation. --- Chemical element. --- Chronology of the universe. --- Circumference. --- Copernican principle. --- Cosmic Background Explorer. --- Cosmic microwave background. --- Cosmic string. --- Cosmogony. --- Dark energy. --- De Sitter space. --- Deuterium. --- Dimension. --- Earth. --- Einstein field equations. --- Elementary particle. --- Elliptic orbit. --- Energy density. --- Event horizon. --- Exoplanet. --- Extraterrestrial life. --- Galactic Center. --- Galactic year. --- Galaxy cluster. --- Googol. --- Gravitational wave. --- Gravity. --- Hawking radiation. --- Hubble Space Telescope. --- Hubble's law. --- Inflation (cosmology). --- Interstellar medium. --- Irregular galaxy. --- Jim Peebles. --- Jupiter. --- Kepler (spacecraft). --- Kuiper belt. --- Light-year. --- Longevity. --- Luminosity. --- Main sequence. --- Measurement. --- Metric expansion of space. --- Milky Way. --- Molecule. --- Neutron star. --- Neutron. --- Newton's law of universal gravitation. --- Nitrogen. --- Nuclear fusion. --- Nuclear reaction. --- Observable universe. --- Orion Nebula. --- Photon. --- Physicist. --- Planck (spacecraft). --- Planetary habitability. --- Planetary nebula. --- Positron. --- Prediction. --- Pressure. --- Quantity. --- Quantum tunnelling. --- Quasar. --- Real Humans. --- Red giant. --- Result. --- Satellite galaxy. --- Saturn. --- Shape of the universe. --- Solar System. --- Solar mass. --- Spacecraft. --- Spiral galaxy. --- Star. --- Supernova. --- Temperature. --- The Astrophysical Journal. --- The Pluto Files. --- Thermal radiation. --- Universe Today. --- Universe. --- Uranus. --- Vacuum energy. --- Vacuum state. --- Wavelength. --- Weakly interacting massive particles. --- Welcome to the Universe. --- White dwarf. --- Year. --- SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics --- SCIENCE / Physics / General


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Advances in Fundamental Physics
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ISBN: 3036557466 3036557458 Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This Special Issue celebrates the opening of a new section of the journal Foundation: Physical Sciences. Theoretical and experimental studies related to various areas of fundamental physics are presented in this Special Issue. The published papers are related to the following topics: dark matter, electron impact excitation, second flavor of hydrogen atoms, quantum antenna, molecular hydrogen, molecular hydrogen ion, wave pulses, Brans-Dicke theory, hydrogen Rydberg atom, high-frequency laser field, relativistic mean field formalism, nonlocal continuum field theories, parallel universe, charge exchange, van der Waals broadening, greenhouse effect, strange and unipolar electromagnetic pulses, quasicrystals, Wilhelm-Weber’s electromagnetic force law, axions, photoluminescence, neutron stars, gravitational waves, diatomic molecular spectroscopy, information geometric measures of complexity. Among 21 papers published in this Special Issue, there are 5 reviews and 16 original research papers.

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Research & information: general --- Physics --- information geometry --- complexity --- classical and quantum physics --- self-simulation hypothesis --- principle of efficient language --- quasicrystals --- empires --- game of life --- emergence --- state sum models --- space–time couplings --- spatiotemporal --- ultrafast optics --- unipolar pulses --- few cycle pulses --- line-by-line --- greenhouse effect --- radiative fluxes --- thermal emission --- spectroscopy --- stark broadening --- atomic physics --- foundations of quantum mechanics --- molecular spectroscopy --- diatomic molecules --- symmetry transformations --- optical emission spectroscopy --- astrophysics --- neutron stars --- nuclear equation of state --- gravitational waves --- speed of sound --- tidal polarizability --- charge exchange --- second flavor of hydrogen atoms --- dark matter --- stark effect --- parallel universes --- multiverse --- preferred direction in the universe --- bulk flow --- four spatial dimensions --- nonlocal metamaterials --- multiscale structures --- fiber bundles --- superspace --- mathematical methods --- mathematical physics --- nonlocal continuum field theory --- semiconductor materials --- preformed cluster decay --- relativistic mean-field --- alpha-particle clustering --- neck-length --- hydrogenic atoms --- high-frequency laser field --- relativistic precession --- laser-controlled precession --- cosmological constant --- generalised Brans-Dicke theory --- Big Rip --- photoluminescence --- dispersive media --- axion --- space-time couplings --- bipolar pulses --- few-cycle pulses --- free-space wave equation --- space-time wave packets --- nondiffracting localized waves --- molecular hydrogen ion --- proton collisions --- molecular spectral bands --- quantum antennas --- quantum field theory --- relativistic quantum mechanics --- quantum radiation --- propagator --- Green’s function --- quantum engineering --- quantum technologies --- radiation pattern --- electron impact excitation of hydrogen atoms --- discrepancy between theories and experiments --- electron impact excitation of hydrogen molecules --- quantum mechanics --- particle–wave duality --- quantum jump --- quantum entanglement --- Weber’s electrodynamics --- Weber force --- field theory --- electromagnetism --- electrodynamics --- physics of elementary particles and fields --- magnetic field --- electric field --- electrical engineering --- fundamental physics

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