Showing titles in Cosmology

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...

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. ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Quasars are the brightest sustained phenomena in the known universe—engines of light powered by supermassive black holes devouring matter at the centers of distant galaxies. But they are more than cosmic spectacles. Every beam of quasar light that crosses the universe accumulates an extraordinarily detailed record of the gas, matter, and structure it passes through. The intergalactic medium writes its autobiography in the spectra of quasars, using absorption lines as words and sightlines as sentences.

“The Moon is not a dead world—it is a world waiting for use.” — Paul D. Spudis From bestselling author Drew Kirkley comes the fifth and final chapter in The Living Cell Books of The Tesla Frequencies Series: a visionary exploration that merges science, resonance, and consciousness into a single cosmic blueprint of life. The Resonant Moon: Life Within the Hollow Light invites readers into the silent heart of our closest celestial companion, revealing how Tesla’s forgotten mathematics, Schauberger’s natural spirals, and Sagan’s biological symmetry converge to describe a living ...

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...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose from the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe "Few humans share Greene’s mastery of both the latest cosmological science and English prose." —The New...

*An instant New York Times Bestseller* *Publishers Weekly #1 Most Anticipated Science Book of Spring 2016* "You will be enthralled." — Wall Street Journal "A tour de force." — Salon.com Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern...

Written in simple and accessible language, this nontechnical introduction to cosmology, or the creation and development of the universe, explains the discipline, covers its history, details the latest developments, and explains what is known, what is believed, and what is purely speculative. In addition, the author discusses the development of the Big Bang theory, and more speculative modern issues like quantum cosmology, superstrings, and dark matter.

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.

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 ...