Join Abigail on a magical night-time adventure to discover how the sun, moon and planets came into being.Abigail is a curious little girl. She likes to discover the answers to really BIG questions.One night, she thinks of a question that is SO BIG she can't sleep until she knows the answer."Daddy," she asks as he tucks her into bed, "where did the sun and all the planets come from?"To find out the answer, Daddy invites Abigail on a magical journey through time and space. Together they explore the birth of all living things.By the next morning, Abigail has thought of another big question....A gorgeously illustrated and beautifully told bedtime story that doubles as an introduction to astrophysics, Abigail and the Birth of the Sun will be enjoyed equally by young children and adults.
The book concludes with self-contained appendix providing the basic mathematical framework for understanding modern cosmology.
But since infinity cannot be quantified, no matter how it is divided and subdivided, even a fraction of infinity is infinite. So even in our fractured state, we manifest infinity. through being who we are, each of us expresses the ...
Presents the life and accomplishments of the English scientist, who, despite suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, has become a renowned cosmologist whose theory of black holes has had a profound influence on the modern study of the universe ...
Plasma physics itself seems to make Plasma Cosmology's infinite and eternal universe unnecessary and comes to the support of the Big Bang . Calculations involving causal processes that can concentrate mass into galactic structures and ...
So this medieval argument for the finitude of the past has received fresh wind in its sails from recent scientific discoveries. This collection reviews and assesses the merits of the latest scientific evidences for the universe's beginning.
Worse still for the adherents to the Big Bang faith , in 1987 observations were made of an exploding supernova located in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud , a galaxy near our own . Scientists recorded a mass of neutrinos arriving together .
Describes the Big Bang scientific theory of creation of the universe.
Then on towards that destiny in the infinite future, long after the Earth has been consumed by the Red Giant Sun. The story is told in clear, straightforward terms, in the strict order in which the events happened, and uses no mathematics.
In "Parallel Worlds," world-renowned physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku"--an" author who "has a knack for bringing the most ethereal ideas down to earth" "(Wall Street Journal)--takes readers on a fascinating tour of cosmology, M ...
A Cartoon History of the Earth Volume 1: The Birth of the Earth