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Alan H. Guth, Alan P. Lightman
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Just about everyone in the scientific community accepts the theory that our universe began in a "big bang"--but that theory leaves numerous unanswered questions about why the cosmos formed in just the manner we observe today. In The Inflatio
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Stephen Hawking
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Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists understand the questions being asked by scientists today: Where did the universe come from? How an
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Piers Bizony
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Addressing one of the hottest scientific debates of the decade, "The Exploration of Mars" offers a "informative and highly readable (book) . . . the clear and lucid style makes it suitable for anyone who wants an introduction to the search for life beyon
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Stanley V. McDaniel, Monica Rix Paxson
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In 1976, NASA's Viking orbiters photographed the surface of Mars and sent pictures back to Earth. What some people see in these pictures, a distinctly humanoid face, has been hotly debated ever since, prompting the question, "Are there artifi
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Carl Sagan
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Based on Sagan's 13 part television series, "Cosmos" is about science in its broadest human context, and how science and civilization grew up together. With over 250 full-color illustrations.
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Timothy Ferris
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Plenty of books try to explain the origin of the universe, but despite the ascendance of the Big Bang theory, numerous details of that theory remain in flux as new observations are made and new hypotheses formed (and then confirmed or rejected). Timothy
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Henning Genz
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What can you say about nothing? Paradoxically, it turns out we know quite a lot about emptiness, and physicist Henning Genz fills us in with Nothingness: The Science of Empty Space, a heady and delightful romp through the cold void of space. From
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Richard C. Hoagland
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In 1976, NASA sent four Viking spacecraft to Mars to photograph the planet and test for the presence of life. One of the orbiters photographed a mile-long mesa that uncannily resembled a human face. Hoagland takes readers step by step through the NASA im
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Michio Kaku, Jennifer Trainer Thompson
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Beyond Einstein takes readers on an exciting excursion into the discoveries that have led scientists to the brightest new prospect in theoretical physics today -- superstring theory. What is superstring theory and why is it important? This revolut
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Amir D. Aczel
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Who would have thought a mathematical constant would make such an engaging character? God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe, mathematician Amir Aczel's tale of the search for a scientific explanation of the universe, fea
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Kitty Ferguson
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If you want to measure how big a stick is, you can use a ruler. Want to know how tall a windmill is? Don't waste time climbing to the top with a long measuring tape. Instead, use the old shadow trick--measure the length of a yardstick's shadow, then meas
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William E. Burrows
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More comprehensive than The Right Stuff, more critical than Apollo 13, This New Ocean is a near-perfect history of the men (and occasional women)
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Fred Adams, Greg Laughlin
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There's a reason "astronomically large" means "larger than the scale of ordinary life": normal scales of time and space for astronomers involve millions of years and anywhere from thousands to quadrillions of kilometers. Even for astronomers, University
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Cosmological Physics John A. Peacock
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This eagerly-awaited textbook provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with a complete introduction to contemporary cosmology. It successfully bridges the gap between undergraduate and advanced graduate texts by discussing topics of current
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Architects of the Underworld: Unriddling Atlantis, Anomalies of Mars, and the Mystery of the Sphinx Bruce Rux
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By painstakingly following the long international paper trails that connect such apparently unrelated manifestations and occurrences as crop circles, alien abductions, extraterrestrial activity, and many other modern mysteries, Bruce Rux uncovers a consp
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Gravitation and Modern Cosmology: The Cosmological Constant Problem Rate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Accelerating Expansion
(1917) Believing the universe was static, Einstein added this term (lambda) to the General Theory of Relativity in order to stop the expansion. Related memes: Cosmological Constant, Inflation theory