Worlds Beyond Our Own

Worlds Beyond Our Own
Author: Sujan Sengupta
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319098942

This is a book on planets: Solar system planets and dwarf planets. And planets outside our solar system – exoplanets. How did they form? What types of planets are there and what do they have in common? How do they differ? What do we know about their atmospheres – if they have one? What are the conditions for life and on which planets may they be met? And what’s the origin of life on Earth and how did it form? You will understand how rare the solar system, the Earth and hence life is. This is also a book on stars. The first and second generation of stars in the Universe. But in particular also on the link between planets and stars – brown dwarfs. Their atmospheric properties and similarities with giant exoplanets. All these fascinating questions will be answered in a non-technical manner. But those of you who want to know a bit more may look up the relevant mathematical relationships in appendices.

Exoplanets

Exoplanets
Author: Karen Latchana Kenney
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2017
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1512400866

Learn about the planets that exist outside of our solar system, and the actions scientists are taking to learn more about them. --

Exoplanets

Exoplanets
Author: Michael E. Summers
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1588345955

The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than the sheer number of exoplanets is their variety. In Exoplanets, astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore these remarkable recent discoveries: planets revolving around pulsars, planets made of diamond, planets that are mostly water, and numerous rogue planets wandering through the emptiness of space. This captivating book reveals the latest discoveries and argues that the incredible richness and complexity we are finding necessitates a change in our questions and mental paradigms. In short, we have to change how we think about the universe and our place in it, because it is stranger and more interesting than we could have imagined.

Artificial Intelligence as a Passage to Worlds Beyond Our Own

Artificial Intelligence as a Passage to Worlds Beyond Our Own
Author: Peter Salladé
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2023-11-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1662944950

Simulated universes created by post-human artificial intelligence are a common theme in 21st century hard sci-fi. Suddenly in 2023, we're capable of realizing these literary dreams by virtue of engineering an interface for neural networks advanced enough to simulate human language and visual art beyond the ability of us average simple country folks. The technological hurdles are behind us. Now it's just a matter of concentrated effort on par with any moderately successful tech start-up or community theater ensemble. We're going to have an AI-generated simulated universe comparable to our own in complexity and accessible interactivity. This book is a guide to content creation, and to the responsible humanitarian development of such an unprecedented wonder!

Strange New Worlds

Strange New Worlds
Author: Ray Jayawardhana
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2013-04-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 069115807X

Describes the science of planet hunters, the prospects for the discovery of alien life, and discusses the controversies surrounding extrasolar-planet research.

The World Beyond Your Head

The World Beyond Your Head
Author: Matthew B. Crawford
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2015-03-31
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0374708444

In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed through mastery of our physical environment. In his brilliant follow-up, The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford investigates the challenge of mastering one's own mind. We often complain about our fractured mental lives and feel beset by outside forces that destroy our focus and disrupt our peace of mind. Any defense against this, Crawford argues, requires that we reckon with the way attention sculpts the self. Crawford investigates the intense focus of ice hockey players and short-order chefs, the quasi-autistic behavior of gambling addicts, the familiar hassles of daily life, and the deep, slow craft of building pipe organs. He shows that our current crisis of attention is only superficially the result of digital technology, and becomes more comprehensible when understood as the coming to fruition of certain assumptions at the root of Western culture that are profoundly at odds with human nature. The World Beyond Your Head makes sense of an astonishing array of common experience, from the frustrations of airport security to the rise of the hipster. With implications for the way we raise our children, the design of public spaces, and democracy itself, this is a book of urgent relevance to contemporary life.

The World beyond my Shadow

The World beyond my Shadow
Author: Daniela Schreiter
Publisher: Panini
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2016-05-24
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 3736721412

In her autobiographic Graphic Novel "The World Beyond My Shadow" awarded artist and writer Daniela Schreiter describes her childhood and youth with Asperger syndrome. She tells her story about a life on "the wrong planet" in wonderful pictures and with a great sense of humor. This book helps to understand what it means to live with Asperger's and is an entertaining read at the same time.

Worlds Beyond the Poles

Worlds Beyond the Poles
Author: Amadeo F. Giannini
Publisher: Health Research Books
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1996-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780787303471

1959 Physical continuity of the universe. Contents: the Changing Scene; Extrasensory Perception; Connected Universe; Modern Columbus Seeks Queen Isabella; Disclosing Southern Land Corridor into the Heavens Above; Stratosphere Revelations; Journey.

Beyond: Our Future in Space

Beyond: Our Future in Space
Author: Chris Impey
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2015-04-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0393246647

“Expansive and enlightening. . . . Impey packs his prose with wonderful anecdotes and weird factoids.”—New York Times Book Review Human exploration has been an unceasing engine of technological progress, from the first homo sapiens to leave our African cradle to a future in which mankind promises to settle another world. Beyond tells the epic story of humanity leaving home—and how humans will soon thrive in the vast universe beyond the earth. A dazzling and propulsive voyage through space and time, Beyond reveals how centuries of space explorers—from the earliest stargazers to today’s cutting-edge researchers—all draw inspiration from an innate human emotion: wanderlust. This urge to explore led us to multiply around the globe, and it can be traced in our DNA. Today, the urge to discover manifests itself in jaw-dropping ways: plans for space elevators poised to replace rockets at a fraction of the cost; experiments in suspending and reanimating life for ultra-long-distance travel; prototypes for solar sails that coast through space on the momentum of microwaves released from the Earth. With these ventures, private companies and entrepreneurs have the potential to outpace NASA as the leaders in a new space race. Combining expert knowledge of astronomy and avant-garde technology, Chris Impey guides us through the heady possibilities for the next century of exploration. In twenty years, a vibrant commercial space industry will be operating. In thirty years, there will be small but viable colonies on the Moon and Mars. In fifty years, mining technology will have advanced enough to harvest resources from asteroids. In a hundred years, a cohort of humans born off-Earth will come of age without ever visiting humanity’s home planet. This is not the stuff of science fiction but rather the logical extension of already available technologies. Beyond shows that space exploration is not just the domain of technocrats, but the birthright of everyone and the destiny of generations to come. To continue exploration is to ensure our survival. Outer space, a limitless unknown, awaits us.