Paradox Twins

Author : Joshua Chaplinsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Families
ISBN : 1944866817

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The Paradox Twins by Joshua Chaplinsky Pdf

The Paradox Twins is a copyright infringing biographical collage that exists on the Internet, pieced together by an unknown auteur. Named for the famous thought experiment, it concerns estranged twin brothers who reunite at their father's funeral to discover they no longer look alike. Haunted by the past (and possibly the future), they move into their father's house to settle his affairs, only to reignite old rivalries and uncover long-hidden secrets, most of which involve the young woman who lives next door. An epistolary work comprised of excerpts from various memoirs, novels, screenplay adaptations, and documents of public record, The Paradox Twins is an experimental, sci-fi ghost story about the scariest, most unknowable quantity there is-family. PRAISE FOR THE PARADOX TWINS "Chaplinsky takes a famous physics paradox and brings it back down to earth, using it to rethink the ways in which families relate and interrelate and disintegrate. A collage that assembles itself into a sneaky whole in which it's not always easy to tell what the truth is." -Brian Evenson, author of Song For the Unraveling of the World "As confirmed by The Paradox Twins, Joshua Chaplinsky is one of a handful of American novelists creating the literature of the future: dazzling, original and subversive." -Steve Erickson, author of Zeroville and Shadowbahn "Like a coy, uncanny hybrid of J.G. Ballard and John Carpenter, the Oulipo and the Bizarro, The Paradox Twins is an engrossing and digressive trip through birth and back, stuffed from end to end with mystic weirdness and meta-gags with style to spare." -Blake Butler, author of Alice Knott and 300,000,000

Author : Charles Wachter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735361224

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The Twin Paradox by Charles Wachter Pdf

"The Twin Paradox is one of the best science thrillers to come along since Andy Weir's The Martian." Chris Weitz, Screenwriter, Rogue One With ten years passing for every three minutes on a remote stretch of Texas coast, planes fall out of the sky, evolved species are on the hunt, and people die inside one of the most vicious ecosystems ever grown-all a result of the government's efforts to slow down time. A lot can happen in ten years. That's the point. Governments are always racing for supremacy, for scientific breakthroughs, for technological advantages-and these things take time. Until something goes wrong. With the grounded yet massive world building of READY PLAYER ONE, thrilling scientific questions of JURASSIC PARK, and the time-bending teen drama of BEFORE I FALL, Wachter's THE TWIN PARADOX is a brilliantly plotted tale that is both intimate and massive, relentless yet deliberate, and explores the themes of self-acceptance, self-confidence, and natural selection in a richly hued and unforgettable world. Ultimately the eternal question of Nature versus Nurture is boiled down into this fast-paced thriller told over the course of five days and culminates in one single question: Do we get to choose who we are?

Author : Lucien Gilles Benguigui
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811219115

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Tale Of Two Twins, A: The Langevin Experiment Of A Traveler To A Star by Lucien Gilles Benguigui Pdf

The thought experiment proposed by Langevin in 1911, known under the popular names, 'Clock Paradox' or 'Twin Paradox', is the most surprising result of the theory of Relativity: A twin who travels to a star at nearly the velocity of light comes back to Earth and finds his twin brother much older. In over a century, several thousands of published articles debated both in favor of and against this result. Unique to the physics of Relativity, this baffling phenomenon is analyzed as a main goal of this book.Among an incredible number of solutions, is there one of simplicity and clarity which may be accepted unanimously by all of the physics community? The answer is yes and this solution, which has its origin in Einstein himself, is developed in the framework of the Special Theory of Relativity. In detailing this solution, it is shown that the essential ingredient to understand the theory is the acceleration of the twins. All the models which do not include acceleration are incompatible with the original idea of Langevin. If one considers this phenomenon, several questions come to mind. Why did physicists debate excessively on the paradox and struggle to reach an agreement? Why was there resistance to integrate acceleration into their studies? Why is the solution developed in this book known only by a minority of scientists?Written for physicists, historians and philosophers of science, this book seeks to answer these questions based on (1) the psychological difficulty to accept the theoretical results, and (2) the fact that scientific knowledge is not uniformly distributed among scientists.

Author : Fritz Rohrlich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052137605X

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From Paradox to Reality by Fritz Rohrlich Pdf

This book discusses, in clear non technical language, the two major theories of twentieth-century physics: relativity and quantum mechanics. They are discussed conceptually and philosophically, rather than using mathematics, and the philosophical issues raised pertain to much of science, not only physics. The book is based on successful courses taught by the author, who shows how new discoveries forced physicists to accept often strange and unconventional notions. He aims to remove the mystery and misrepresentation that often surround the ideas of modern physics and to show how modern scientists construct theories. In this way, the reader can appreciate their successes and failures and understand problems which are as yet unsolved.

Author : Steve Erickson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735212039

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Shadowbahn by Steve Erickson Pdf

A LA TIMES' BEST BOOK OF 2017 (FICTION) "A beautiful, moving, strange examination of apocalypse and rebirth.” - Neil Gaiman "Erickson has mobilized so much of what feels pressing and urgent about the fractured state of the country in a way that feels fresh and not entirely hopeless, if only because the exercise of art in opposition to complacent thought can never be hopeless." - New York Times Book Review A chronicle of a weird road trip, a provocative work of alternative history, and a dazzling discography of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, encompassing artists from Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday to Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, SHADOWBAHN is a richly allusive meditation on the meaning of American identity and of America itself. "Jaw-dropping," says Jonathan Lethem (Granta).

Author : Florentin Smarandache
Publisher : Infinite Study
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781599732701

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New Relativistic Paradoxes and Open Questions by Florentin Smarandache Pdf

Author : Blake Butler
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525535232

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Alice Knott by Blake Butler Pdf

Named one of the Best Books of 2020 by Refinery29 A hypnotic, wildly inventive novel about art, violence, and endurance Alice Knott lives alone, a reclusive heiress haunted by memories of her deceased parents and mysterious near-identical brother. Much of her family’s fortune has been spent on a world-class collection of artwork, which she stores in a vault in her lonely, cavernous house. One day, she awakens to find the artwork destroyed, the act of vandalism captured in a viral video that soon triggers a rash of copycat incidents. As more videos follow and the world’s most priceless works of art are destroyed one by one, Alice finds that she has become the chief suspect in an international conspiracy—even as her psyche becomes a shadowed landscape of childhood demons and cognitive disorder. Unsettling, almost physically immersive, Alice Knott is a virtuoso exploration of the meaning of art and the lasting afterlife of trauma, as well as a deeply humane portrait of a woman whose trials feel both apocalyptic and universal.

Author : John dePillis,Jose Wudka
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781614445173

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Illustrated Special Relativity through Its Paradoxes: A Fusion of Linear Algebra, Graphics, and Reality by John dePillis,Jose Wudka Pdf

"Assuming a minimum of technical expertise beyond basic matrix theory, the authors introduce inertial frames and Minkowski diagrams to explain the nature of simultaneity, why faster-than-light travel is impossible, and the proper way to add velocities. We resolve the twin paradox, the train-in-tunnel paradox, the pra-shooter paradox along with the lesser-known bug-rivet paradox that shows how rigidity is incompatible with special relativity. Since Einstein in his seminal 1905 paper introducing special relativity, acknowledged his debt to Clerk Maxwell, we fully develop Maxwell's four equations that unify the theories of electricity, optics, and magnetism. These equations also lead to a simple calculation for the frame independent speed of electromagnetic waves in a vacuum."--Cover.

Author : Talal A. Debs,Michael L. G. Redhead
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674034139

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Objectivity, Invariance, and Convention by Talal A. Debs,Michael L. G. Redhead Pdf

From the Publisher: "What does it mean to be lonely?" Thomas Dumm asks. His inquiry, documented in this book, takes us beyond social circumstances and into the deeper forces that shape our very existence as modern individuals. The modern individual, Dumm suggests, is fundamentally a lonely self. Through reflections on philosophy, political theory, literature, and tragic drama, he proceeds to illuminate a hidden dimension of the human condition. His book shows how loneliness shapes the contemporary division between public and private, our inability to live with each other honestly and in comity, the estranged forms that our intimate relationships assume, and the weakness of our common bonds. A reading of the relationship between Cordelia and her father in Shakespeare's King Lear points to the most basic dynamic of modern loneliness-how it is a response to the problem of the "missing mother." Dumm goes on to explore the most important dimensions of lonely experience-Being, Having, Loving, and Grieving. As the book unfolds, he juxtaposes new interpretations of iconic cultural texts-Moby-Dick, Death of a Salesman, the film Paris, Texas, Emerson's "Experience," to name a few-with his own experiences of loneliness, as a son, as a father, and as a grieving husband and widower. Written with deceptive simplicity, Loneliness as a Way of Life is something rare-an intellectual study that is passionately personal. It challenges us, not to overcome our loneliness, but to learn how to re-inhabit it in a better way. To fail to do so, this book reveals, will only intensify the power that it holds over us

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Paradoxes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dmitri Rabounski , Florentin Smarandache,Larissa Borissova
Publisher : Infinite Study
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Progress in Physics, vol. 2/2008 by Dmitri Rabounski , Florentin Smarandache,Larissa Borissova Pdf

Progress in Physics has been created for publications on advanced studies in theoretical and experimental physics, including related themes from mathematics.

Author : John L. Bell
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781554813025

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Oppositions and Paradoxes by John L. Bell Pdf

Since antiquity, opposed concepts such as the One and the Many, the Finite and the Infinite, and the Absolute and the Relative, have been a driving force in philosophical, scientific, and mathematical thought. Yet they have also given rise to perplexing problems and conceptual paradoxes which continue to haunt scientists and philosophers. In Oppositions and Paradoxes, John L. Bell explains and investigates the paradoxes and puzzles that arise out of conceptual oppositions in physics and mathematics. In the process, Bell not only motivates abstract conceptual thinking about the paradoxes at issue, but he also offers a compelling introduction to central ideas in such otherwise-difficult topics as non-Euclidean geometry, relativity, and quantum physics. These paradoxes are often as fun as they are flabbergasting. Consider, for example, the famous Tristram Shandy paradox: an immortal man composing an autobiography so slowly as to require a year of writing to describe each day of his life — he would, if he had infinite time, presumably never complete the work, although no individual part of it would remain unwritten. Or think of an office mailbox labelled “mail for those with no mailbox”—if this is a person’s mailbox, how can they possibly have “no mailbox”? These and many other paradoxes straddle the boundary between physics and metaphysics, and demonstrate the hidden difficulty in many of our most basic concepts.

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : CAEZIK SF & Fantasy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 164710095X

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Time for the Stars by Robert A. Heinlein Pdf

"Rarely has Heinlein pushed his imagination further...a vivid, stirring experience."--Chicago Tribune "One of the superb Heinlein stories that has excitement, urbanity, humanity, rationality, pace, understanding, and is a joy to read."--The New York Times With over-population stretching the resources of Earth, the need to find and colonize other Terra-type planets is becoming crucial to the survival of the human race. But finding these planets is time-consuming and very costly. With a seemingly inexhaustible budget, the scientists at the Long Range Foundation create the remarkable Torchships, which are able to traverse to different Star Systems within the matter of months. However, communication between Earth and these ships would still take countless years--even decades. How would they alert Earth of the planets they find? Tom and Pat are recruited by LRF to become the human transmitters and receivers for the mission. Growing up together they had felt like they were so similar, so in sync, that it was almost as if they read each other's minds.... Only to discover, that was indeed what they could do. Along with other telepathic pairings, their abilities are tested, and it is discovered that time nor distance impedes their connection; communication between Earth and the Torchships would be instantaneous. But there is a catch: during the course of the mission, while one of them stays behind and grows old, on Earth, the other will be traversing the stars, and--if he survives--will return a young man. "The word that comes to mind for him is essential. As a writer--eloquent, impassioned, technically innovative--he reshaped science fiction in the way that defined it for every writer who followed him.... He was the most significant science fiction writer since H. G. Wells."--Robert Silverberg

Author : Scott Reeves,Ken Haley
Publisher : Aether Wind
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Death to Einstein! 3 by Scott Reeves,Ken Haley Pdf

From the Introduction: "What follows is a LONG discussion I (Scott Reeves) had regarding some of my ideas about relativity which I presented in my previous Death to Einstein! books and videos. The discussion took place over several months in the comments sections of a few of my YouTube videos, with a Youtuber going under the name Ken Haley. The discussion had enough interesting challenges to my ideas, challenges which brought out enough new details and clarification that, in hindsight, I realize needed to be brought out, that I felt the discussion needed to be put together into a book to complement my previous books and videos."

Author : Marc Neuffer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 107732863X

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Paradox Twins by Marc Neuffer Pdf

A young woman comes home to find she has already arrived. She faces a twin, an EXACT COPY of herself. Same memories, same life. Each is equally unsure what has happened. Each wants answers. That search takes them though time, space, and other dimensions, with a few murders along the way. New York to Tibet to Mexico to Russia to the Oort Cloud and beyond. Either she's nuts or it's really happening. Prequel to HEAT an LIGHT "Okay, Okay. Get your machine running, and I'll tell you the story as it happened. You'll get a first-hand account of the events leading up to the Great Shift of '28. That's 2028 to you. Yeah, I know it was a hundred and twenty-seven years ago. I was thirty-four at the time, but it all started when I was twenty-five, I mean when we were twenty-five." RILEY