Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences
5,918円 Over the course of the twentieth century, scientists came to accept four counterintuitive yet fundamental facts about the Earth: deep time, continental drift, meteorite impact, and global warming. When first suggested, each proposition violated scientific orthodoxy and was quickly denounced as sc...
Making Time on Mars
4,642円 An examination of how the daily work of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers was organized across three sites on two planets using local Mars time. In 2004, mission scientists and engineers working with NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) remotely operated two robots at different sites on Mars for nin...
Felt Time
2,652円 An expert explores the riddle of subjective time, from why time speeds up as we grow older to the connection between time and consciousness. We have widely varying perceptions of time. Children have trouble waiting for anything. (“Are we there yet?”) Boredom is often connected to our sense of tim...
Blinking Universe: 30 Technical Papers on...
0円 Rev. 1C - 11 Aug 2021 This ebook is a collection of 30 technical papers involving earth-shattering ideas. Our physical universe literally blinks, off and on, more than 1 trillion times each second. It is called the Lighthouse Frequency, and it is calculated to be 1,101,361,642,963.57 Hz, or expre...
InterPlanetary Transmissions
421円 This volume is a record of the Santa Fe Institute's second InterPlanetary Festival, nicknamed Stardust, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in June of 2019. The InterPlanetary Festival fuses an exploration of complex systems and technological innovation with music, film, art, food, drinks, and more. Du...
Storia del tempo
1,600円 Cos'è il tempo? Questa domanda ha affascinato filosofi, matematici e scienziati per migliaia di anni,ma sembra non poter trovare risposta. Perché il tempo sembra accelerare con l'età? Qual è la sua connessione con i cicli della memoria? A fornire ognuna di queste risposte ci prova Joseph Mazur: p...
Archaeology and Photography
10,280円 Does a photograph freeze a moment of time? What does it mean to treat a photographic image as an artefact? In the visual culture of the 21st century, do new digital and social forms change the status of photography as archival or objective – or are they revealing something more fundamental about ...
Speed and Micropolitics
9,616円 This book provides a theoretical framework for understanding the micropolitics of speed; a rich, nuanced, and embodied account of life in an accelerating world. What does it feel like to live in an era of profound social acceleration? What kinds of affects, perceptions, and identities does an acc...
Tras las huellas del tiempo
2,154円 Beatriz Pastor, crítica literaria y Dwight Lahr, matemático, proponen un diálogo entre ciencias y humanidades que nos lleva por derroteros donde se generan preguntas que, sin duda, iluminan desde nuevas perspectivas el inagotable misterio del tiempo.San Agustín dialoga con Platón y Aristóteles, S...
Zeitreisetheorie
450円 Sie haben Filme gesehen, Sie haben Bücher gelesen und jedes Mal darüber nachgedacht, ob Sie es auch tun könnten. Das Wort "Zeitreise" selbst sorgt für Aufsehen und die Vorstellungen davon, was man ändern könnte, wenn man die Gelegenheit erhält, in die Vergangenheit oder in die Zukunft zu reisen. ...
On Time
4,371円 An approachable, accessible history of timekeeping and the impact of the increasing precision and accuracy of time on humanity. Western culture has been obsessed with regulating society by the precise, accurate measurement of time since the Middle Ages. In On Time, Ken Mondschein explores the pai...
A Reflexão mundana
1,751円 Até aqui com este sinopse acho que já é bastante emocionante, este livro reflexivo do teu gênero mais favorito no que tange a reflexão ampla, eu digo honestamente e com toda sinceridade eis o livro que possa te fazer sair no labirinto e como se não bastasse, após uma pequena leitura eu tenho cert...
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