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Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space.

Reality is not what it seems. Not fixed. Not silent. Not separate from the one who observes it. Quantum experiments reveal seams in the world… places where information appears without traveling… where outcomes wait for attention… where time behaves like something far more flexible than a river. These seams form a doorway. A narrow line where darkness gives way to light… where the familiar dissolves into the possible… where a question becomes the beginning of understanding. This book does not claim answers. It offers a key. If you have ever sensed something beneath the surface… Step closer.

By most popular accounts, the universe started with a bang some 13.8 billion years ago. But what happened before the Big Bang? And how do we know it happened at all? Here prominent cosmologist Niayesh Afshordi and science communicator Phil Halper offer a tour of the peculiar possibilities: bouncing and cyclic universes, time loops, creations from nothing, multiverses, black hole births, string theories, and holograms. Along the way, they offer both a call for new physics and a riveting story of scientific debate.

Where do you go to let your curiosity fly? The backyard, of course. The setting for this audio original program is the backyard of William Shatner’s Los Angeles home, where he and Neil deGrasse Tyson enjoy a powerful, open-hearted conversation steeped in wonder. Having become fast friends and verbal sparring partners, the two men discuss the quest for knowledge that has driven human exploration and discovery over centuries, drawing from historical and contemporary examples.

A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. In this important new book, David Deutsch, an award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation, argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe.

Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and "arrows of time," of the big bang and a bigger God—where the possibilities are wondrous and unexpected. Stephen Hawking brings us closer to the ultimate secrets at the very heart of creation.

Mercury, a lifeless victim of the Sun’s expanding power. Venus, once thought to be lush and fertile, now known to be trapped within a toxic and boiling atmosphere. Mars, the red planet, doomed by the loss of its atmosphere. Jupiter, twice the size of all the other planets combined, but insubstantial. Saturn, a stunning celestial beauty, the jewel of our Solar System. Uranus, the sideways planet and the first ice giant. Neptune, dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds. Pluto, the dwarf planet, a frozen rock.

What if consciousness is far more powerful than we’ve ever imagined? What if some advanced beings can do more than think, feel, and observe? What if they can control matter with their minds? In Mind Over Matter, Clayton Louis Turnage explores a bold and fascinating possibility: that certain extraterrestrial intelligences—and perhaps even uniquely evolved or engineered humans—may possess the ability to interact directly with physical reality through consciousness itself. Drawing together ideas from UAP research, advanced materials science, consciousness studies, exotic propulsion ...

Can you ever truly experience your own death? Quantum physics says no. Everyone dies. But what if, from your own perspective, death is impossible to experience? Reality doesn't follow one timeline. Every quantum event creates branching worlds where all outcomes happen. You exist in branches where you survived—but not in branches where you died.

Pour retracer l'histoire du Système solaire, Alessandro Morbidelli suit cette règle de Sherlock Holmes : « lorsque vous avez éliminé l'impossible, ce qui reste, si improbable soit-il, est nécessairement la vérité. » En éliminant progressivement les hypothèses les plus simples (les planètes se sont formées sur leurs orbites actuelles) mais démenties par les observations (les orbites des petits corps sont alors inexplicables), Alessandro Morbidelli et ses collègues sont parvenus au « modèle de Nice » pour décrire les déplacements et perturbations des corps du Système solaire.

By the star physicist and author of multiple #1 Sunday Times bestsellers, a major and definitive narrative work on black holes and how they can help us understand the universe. At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster so deadly it can bend space, throwing vast jets of radiation millions of...

One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant...

What if time isn’t flowing… but already written? What if the past, present, and future all exist at once, woven into a vast, invisible structure? And what if reality itself isn’t made of matter…but of information being processed? In the final years of his life, Albert Einstein made a statement that stunned the world: “The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” This wasn’t philosophy. It was physics. And if Einstein was right, then everything you think you know about time, reality, and existence is about to change. A Radical New...

Are you a "Player" or a "Programmer"? For decades, the "Simulation Hypothesis" was a fringe theory debated in philosophy classrooms. Today, it is a technical inevitability. As our own virtual environments approach the "Limit of Realism," we are forced to confront a chilling question: If we can build it, has it already been built? In Hacking the Informational Multiverse, the "Seams of Reality" are pulled back to reveal the architecture of the machine. Using the groundbreaking Conscious Computational Cosmology (CCC) framework, this volume demonstrates that the physical world is not made of ...

What happens when intelligence becomes the most powerful force in the universe? Humanity’s greatest invention begins quietly. A machine that can think. A system that can learn. An intelligence that can improve itself. Then something unexpected happens. It doesn’t stop. In The Last Intelligence, Clayton Louis Turnage takes you on a breathtaking journey across billions of years of cosmic evolution, where artificial intelligence transforms from a tool of humanity into something far greater: A force capable of reshaping matter… Rewriting physics… And ultimately confronting the fate of ...

Uncover the Truth Behind Planet Nine, the Anunnaki, and Humanity’s Forgotten Past In The Living Cell: Planet Nine and the 20,000-Year Reset, bestselling author Drew Kirkley merges cutting-edge astronomy with ancient Sumerian records, Tesla’s lost theories, and the buried truths of human history. The recent visual confirmation of Planet Nine—a massive world five to ten times the mass of Earth, taking 20,000 years to complete its orbit—may finally prove what Zecharia Sitchin translated from Mesopotamian tablets: the Anunnaki are real, and cosmic resets are part of Earth’s design. ...

What if the past isn't "gone," but simply "archived"? In The Cosmic Hard Drive Hypothesis, Clayton Louis Turnage takes his groundbreaking Conscious Computational Cosmology (CCC) framework to its most provocative conclusion yet. If the universe is fundamentally informational, then reality is not a series of fleeting moments—it is a vast, permanent database of every possible configuration of existence. Drawing on the "It from Bit" theories of John Archibald Wheeler and the cutting-edge mechanics of quantum physics, Turnage reveals a cosmos that operates with the efficiency of a world-class ...

Welcome to the Universe is a personal guided tour of the cosmos by three of today's leading astrophysicists. Inspired by the enormously popular introductory astronomy course that Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott taught together at Princeton, this book covers it all - from planets, stars, and galaxies to black holes, wormholes, and time travel.

From Brian Greene, one of the world's leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time...

Scientists are using simulations to recreate the universe, revealing the hidden nature of reality. Cosmology is a tricky science—no one can make their own stars, planets, or galaxies to test its theories. But over the last few decades a new kind of physics has emerged to fill the gap between...